Okay, in my last post, I mentioned that I’d lost a scene I know I wrote. Well, I mentioned
it to Konnie, and
she asked if I’d checked our shared files. I said I had, but also
mentioned that I know I wrote it and shared it with her because she had once
commented on the bit about my main female character sitting on the shoulders of
the main male character.
Konnie asked me how long ago I
shared it with her, but I couldn’t remember. I did however remember that I shared
it via email because it was before we acquired the ability to share
our changes automatically through a program she is paying for.
So, Konnie searched through her old
emails! And I have my scene restored! Not only that, but it has changes in it I’d forgotten
about, so now I’m working
to combine the best parts of the previous
version and the current version.
This isn’t as easy as it seems because the current version
has several significant changes in it, including the names of half the men in the story which needs to be dealt with.
And then when I am rereading the
old version, I noticed I had a feature in there that I hadn’t carried over to
the current version that was excellent, and I had
to rework the feature of the hero’s ship into the current version and work in a
short bit of scene into the current version, which required changes because it's happening at a different time than I originally had
it.
Of course, that different time is
the big issue because between writing the previous
version and the current version, I decided some of the things they do need to take days longer than what I had. Ergo,
that excellent interaction between the hero and heroine takes place days after I originally had it happen.
And that will continue to be an issue, as well as the fact that I added details that weren’t in the previous version. And all of that
makes a difference.
The best part is I was afraid to
scan ahead in the current version to see if I lost another fantastic scene that
happens later in the story. And frankly, I still haven’t checked,
but in rereading the obsolete version, I found I still
had that scene as well.
This is such great news. I can’t tell
you how glad I am that Konnie is my backup.
But now we have to be sure we are always
saving the newest version! Or we’ll lose our changes.
Just remember when Word tells you,
you already have a file by that name, please
remember to save the current version, not
the older one! Then you won’t have
this issue.
I might add, Konnie and I have used
each other as backup before. Once I had to send Konnie all her stories that I
had stored on my flash drive because her computer or her flash drive crashed. And this isn’t the first time she happened to have the version
of a story that I managed to lose somehow.
Do any of you have a friend or
family member you can share your work with, so you have it stored somewhere
else?
For that matter, do any of you have
a family member with which you can brainstorm?
Not too long ago, Konnie called me
because she was editing her sci-fi and she realized she needed one character to
have a first name, not just a title and last name. And
she’d already
exhausted her list of alien names.
Hence the reason she called me.
Yeah,
my strong suits are male POVs and alien names even though most
of what I write is contemporary romance.
The thing is Konnie’s strong suits are meek and timid female
characters and making up titles. She’s even
better at blurbs than I am.
I do have a couple of female
characters with phobias, and Konnie had to help me get those scenes right in
the way I help her with male POVs.
On the other hand, my best blurbs
are in reality her work,
and most of my titles are her work as well. I
have one where the title for my story came from a friend, but the story idea
was his too, he just insisted I was
better suited to write it. And I have
another one that the title came to me along with the main character.
As much as we work together and
complement each other, it's no wonder people have wondered why we don’t collaborate on
a story.
All I can say is we work better alone, except when we need
help.
Anyway, happy
writing everyone!
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