There’s nothing that lights a fire under your typing fingers like the realization that the printed-out draft you’re working from and making improvements on is the only copy of that draft.
THE ONLY COPY.
Please don’t ask how this happened. I usually e-mail drafts to myself, but I must have fallen behind. I back up on a USB drive… but that got damaged this winter and is completely corrupted. I had it in my computer, but it seems that when my netbook broke and the guys at the store transferred my files for me, that one got lost in the move.
I know, dropbox. I have it now, and I pray that I’m doing it right. Do you have to open the file through dropbox in order for it to update, or is it linked automatically?
I also have a new USB drive, and I’m e-mailing files to myself.
Still… until I get this thing done, all I have of my best draft so far is PAPER. Flimsy, flammable, blown-by-the-breezable paper.
My word count is SOARING.
^ Just this much to go…
disregard the prologue 
June 29th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
Goodness!!! Fingers crossed for the safety of your hard copy!
Maybe make a physical copy of the hard copy, too? I’ve lost writing before, too, and it can be devastating. Good luck!
June 29th, 2013 at 10:46 pm
Oh CRAP!
June 29th, 2013 at 11:18 pm
I believe that as long as you’re editing the file in saved in the DropBox folder on your hard drive, it automatically updates it each time it’s saved. I got 50gb free for two years when I bought my tablet, so I’ve been making use of it.