Losing your writings

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Whether it's art or writing or just psychological stuff or stuff about my past that I want to get out, I always lose my writings.


If it's a hard copy, I lose it, or someone loses it for me. If it's on the computer, the computer crashes and the hard drive has to be overwritten with a new operating system. If it's on a disk the disk gets damaged/destroyed. If it's on the internet, someone deletes it. Right now I'm using WP and my gmail account (they say thye don't ever delete gmail accounts no matter how long they've been inactive) to store my stuff. I hope it's true that gmail accounts don't get deleted. It's so depressing that for years and years, my whole life, I've lost almost everything I wrote, that every attempt I make to express myself gets thwarted.


I've probably lost hundreds of stories, plus other things too. I lost a whole agenda that I had filled with psychological/psychiatric realizations about myself. I found a much simpler, better way of expressing that psych stuff but when it is happening, when I've just lost the stuff and still need it, or feel I still need it, it's no fun, and it keeps happening and happening.


I also lost tons of threads I started about my opinions on economic, political, social, religious, moral, legal, scientific and mathematical issues, when my friend deleted his board that most of them were on. I also had a lot of stuff (though not much) on my own board, my first one, which was deleted due to me justifiably badmouthing someone else on it.

some options:
1.- Amazon S3 + Jungledisk
2.- Evernote http://evernote.com/
3.- Google Docs http://docs.google.com/

I use all three of them, on Amazon S3 is a complete backup of my computer so nothing gets lost.
Google Docs is where I keep some documents and texts that I share/edit with a couple of friends and we constantly update them.
On Evernote I have some docs I need to have at hand, PDFs mainly, and having them synced on the iPhone rules. BTW Evernote offers free OCR but it's still a somewhat close format (not like a simple .doc that you can edit in Word).

Google Docs is the only one truly 100% free, and I think it'd be the mostest better for you (: But check all of them and good luck.


...BTW I ALSO store stuff on my Gmail account as drafts ...

I guess I'm the other way around...

I print out some things, and keep them in binders. I have lyrics for songs I wrote 25 years ago. I burn CDs and DVDs with stories I've written, or post them on sites where they seem to be able to be found years later.

It would probably be a good idea to have multiple backup copies, and keep them in a safe place. If you're having to reformat the hard drive with a new operating system more than once, or twice, in response to problems, there may be something more seriously wrong with computers.

As with the methods above; it's a good idea. Save the URL on paper or somewhere, also in a safe place, and you should be good.

^ yeah that too, it's a good thing to backup stuff to DVDs.