How many times have you heard that? In the last blog I mentioned formatting errors from a PDF. I had to find a way to convert my PDF copy because somehow, my original doc file, actually several because I kept multiple incarnations of my story, disappeared in my last crash. I thought I had all of it on a flash drive, as well as on my backup drive. I did not. All that was left was a PDF that I had sent to a friend who agreed to be a test reader.
I have read that Kindle will accept PDFs, they don't play well together. I was able to convert it, back to a Word doc by way of html. But in the conversion process, I lost all of my paragraph indentation. It also ran some paragraphs together. AAAAARG! Without my loving wife's assistance, I'd still be working on it. She spent the entire evening with the PDF copy on her computer reading the first few words of each paragraph, so I could correct the doc file on my computer. It was grueling.
BACK UP YOUR WORK! Throwing it on a flash drive is a great idea, as is saving a copy to an external hard drive, or at least the D partition of your computer if you have one. But cloud storage is cheap these days. I spend $60 a year on Carbonite, well worth it if it saves you from losing an entire novel. Had I not sent that copy to my friend, I might not have Soul Searching.
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