This is such basic advice I thought it would go without saying. But at least half a dozen times in less than a year, I’ve encountered writers who no longer had a word processor document containing the manuscript for their book. These are all folks who had their book published …
Tag: Computers
Your hard drive will crash
One weekend while I was at a conference, Dropbox had a major service outage. This wasn’t a huge problem for me, just an inconvenience. For others, not so much. Dropbox is an online storage service, and a lot of writers use it as their main backup. A glitch in a maintenance …
Writers need professional e-mail addresses
When you’re just starting out, it doesn’t matter what your e-mail address looks like. But when you reach the point of submitting to publishers or even self-publishing, you need a professional e-mail address. Make that especially if you’re self-publishing. The self-published author is a businessperson, and needs a businesslike address. …