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I like to store my work in progress on my hard drive, my tablet, on a thumb drive and in print copy.
Got all the bases covered, I think? :-)
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I store everything digitally. If something is not on my computer it is usually on my external hard drive.
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Google Docs. I can share them if need be, or allow someone to come in and add notes if I'd like a collaborator.
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I save everything to my computer and then it backs up in my google drive periodically. I've also got an external hardrive that I use to back everything up on my computer once in a while. I've lost so many docs in the past I try to keep it from happening as much as possible.

Also making sure autosave is enabled on whatever program I'm working with is super important.
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I store everything on my good'ol laptop. I often use an app called 'Evernote' I really recommend this for laptop users who want to make quick notes.
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For me personally I just like writing and storing my work on the computer and use different folders with a main folder to keep everything organized like chapters...ideas... characters. I also store on my USB after.
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I store it in my laptop.
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I save everything in Google Drive. As a student it saves my life because I can get to my work anywhere, and as a writer it's so easy to share with people for editing / critiquing / etc.
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I generally store it on my laptop because I've lost precious work when I placed it all in dropbox. It was a real heartbreaker. I keep my notes backed up in writing and due to corrupted thumb drives, I don't really back it up anywhere else. I just keep ensuring that my laptop is well-protected and that I take really good care of my laptop as well. But I do backup my computer every once in awhile just in case something happens.
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Post by lehel_vandor »

Mostly locally with two backups (I know, this is paranoid :) ), but from time to time I upload it also on google drive. Latter I just use for "checkpoint" versions, i.e. whenever some larger chunk of the work is ready.
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My books are stored on the hard drives of my desk top computer and two laptops. I have three memory sticks/flash drives as well. I also have print copies of both of my books, the one already digitally published and the one almost there. Like many other people, I do fear losing my documents, especially on the memory sticks. It's hard to think that anyone could 'steal' your work. I also dread computers completely crashing, taking all my work with them!
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I opened a dedicated email account and send a dated copy at the end of my daily writing. Also store a dated copy on a flash drive and save a dated file on my hard drive.
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I save mine of flash drives and on google docs.It works.My laptop did crash:( But I have all my writing with me.Phew!
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I save everything to dropbox and then occasionally, I will copy my dropbox onto my laptop.
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I have an online writing portfolio at Writing.com, I store my in progress and all kind of works there :)
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