What would happen to your story in a fire?

BACK IT UP ALL OVER THE PLACE…

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Or a flood, or should someone steal your computer?

I don’t know about you but, I’d have a freaking heart attack!laptop-fire

We’ve all know to back up our work. I do this religiously to an external hard drive. A hard drive that is in my closet, that would burn up with my laptop and house in a fire.

Geesh! Give me a minute while I bang my head on table.

September 15, 2016, the Associated Press reported about a fire. Nothing unusual about fires, they happen every day. Unless you are the victim. As was the case for Gideon Hodge a  novelist that realized his only copies  were on a laptop inside.

Mr. Hodge rushed past firefighters into the blazing inferno to save his computer.

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Man dashes into house to save laptop, 2 completed novels from fire in New Orleans’ Broadmoor neighborhood BY MATT SLEDGE

So all of this got me…

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5 thoughts on “What would happen to your story in a fire?

  1. For some reason, I’ve been thinking about his a lot lately, too, Chris. Great re-post . . . I’ve decided to also put my major stuff (writing, bills, and photos mainly) onto a thumb drive and into a safety deposit box in a bank, as another line of security for fire, flood, robbery, etc.

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