[stylist] Do you have a writing place?

Thu Feb 16 18:02:06 UTC 2017

Bridgit and all,
You brought up a very good point about the back-ups. I think this is really 
a must for us all for you never know when an accident will happen on the 
computer site.
A couple years ago my computer crashed very quickly and I would have lost 
years of work if I had not done back ups. Now, I'm really obsessive about 
it. I have back-ups on disks, and thumb drives and a program that also backs 
up all my work.  For my 2 blogs I purchased the theme and paid for the extra 
perks such as the back-up program. I just woke up in the morning and turned 
on the computer and it was black. DEAD.
Another thing I do is that I connected each blog to a special FaceBook page 
of the same name as the blogs - this way, everything I post on my blogs gets 
reposted on their sister-FaceBook pages. This directs visitors to the blog 
itself. Another way of covering bases for me and reaching additional 
audience possibilities. Yes, it takes a lot of time to do all of this but it 
is also good marketing strategy as well as back-ups for each venue.

About print copies - yes. I worried about total loss of my works, too.
Of course, I cannot see or read the print copies, but yet, I want to have 
them all just in case, as Bridgit said.
I have a binder for each type of writing and each piece is in a see-through 
protective page and placed into the binders by year.
I have a binder for Poems; one for Non-fiction essays; one for archives of 
Publications by Year; Publications by Title, alphabetically arranged. Yes, 
obsessive about not having my archives up-to-date, too.
I update about once a month for everything. For publications that present my 
work often, I have a separate binder for each of them with a copy of each 
published work, by date of publication.

I know this all sounds like a ton of work, but it really isn't if you keep 
up with it monthly. It only takes a couple of hours to do it and would be 
well worth it should anything happen that my computer or thumb drives or 
CD.s would no longer work.
Lynda

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How and where I write has changed since I lost my sight. I used to have
notebooks full of writing along with a journal. I preferred pencil, but was
always very picky about the type of pens and pencils I used. I couldn't use
just any pen. I would write with music or TV in the background, but now I
require silence. I will listen to music while I ponder ideas and structure
and all that good stuff, but when I actually get down to writing now, I like
to have quiet. With 2 kids, I don't always get quiet though. I've never been
an early riser; I like my sleep, grin. But I try to write when my
four-year-old is at school. Now though, I have a newborn, so haven't done
much writing. Need to figure out a new schedule and routine. I write with my
laptop in a big, over-sized chair in the living room. My husband bought me a
really nice desk a couple of years ago, but I just don't find it very
comfortable, and he uses it more than I do. I also get uncomfortable sitting
traditionally, so in my big chair, I can sit however I want, smile. Like
Lynda, I miss holding books and pens and using my notebooks, and oh man, I
miss my highlighters. I had every color and would use them often, grin. The
only tool I really use is my laptop. I use my Victor Stream and iPad if
referring to other material, like other books and outside sources, but all
my notes and writing is done on my laptop. I back-up everything with a flash
drive and an external hard drive. I keep saying I will print off hard-copies
of finished work and file it, but I have yet to do this; not a bad idea
though, just in case.

Bridgit

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Shelley
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Cc: Shelley Alongi <alongi.shelley at gmail.com>
Subject: [stylist] Do you have a writing place?

Well, I have several writing places. They are indoors because I've thought
about writing outside but I get distracted by everything that's going on out
there. I am like Barbara I used my Perkins Brailer writer when I was in high
school. I have a complete novel that I wrote on one of those and I have a
copy of it somewhere on a tape recorder that for me. I did not keep that
copy although I did type it so I have a print copy of it somewhere. But it's
such a plagiarized work I would you have to completely re-write it. I can do
that. :-) Anyway, my current writing place is either my dining room table
next to a window or the desk in my office. So it's not very original but
it's quiet enough around here that I do not need to seclude myself.
Sometimes I take a table into my living room and yes it is a table not a
tray or one of those rolling desks or anything it is a folding portable
table that you can adjust the height of and I spread out all of my writing
things on it. That's usually my computer and a calendar or sometimes my
phone because I'm using both for notetaking in whatever. Anyway, I take that
and set it by the couch and have the TV on low and I right there it depends.
Mainly I write in the kitchen. I do like to have music in the background and
there is an app called Abiding Radio which has instrumental hymns and it
peaceful that it does not distract me. I will also put classical music in
the background. And of course my cat has to sit with me and help me write.
Well she just lays there and tries to keep me from writing sometimes. :-)
Manley she just lays on the table and lets me do my work. She is good that
way. So my writing spots are not original but they work and believe me I
have been writing a lot lately. I will write the scene as I see it and then
I go back and fill it in if I think it needs work. I cannot write a story or
a novel in a week. It takes three or four months once I have the idea and I
am going to finish it. I do not use a tape recorder or a digital voice
recorder to keep ideas. I have always said I'm going to do that but I don't
do it. What I do is even if I'm not sitting down in physically writing the
book or the story I'm thinking of it in my head. And then when I sit down
and write if I'm not going to finish a scene at a specific time I am
beginning to write notes on my manuscript that say things like describe
campsite or I outlined it right at the end of a chapter because keeping an
outline for me and a Single place does not work so I outline where I need to
write things. So that is pretty much how I  writing in the same place. That
place changes for me. Well, now that I have talked about writing, it is time
to go read. :-) Since publishing novels I have a greater appreciation for
the craft and I am always looking for ways to improve. The best advice I
ever heard was to be a better writer, read.
Shelley, Queen of bells out!
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