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Mistake Number One To Avoid

  • I've had a novel in the works for a few years. Had it up to I believe about 60,000 words. Since I've not published a novel, I decided about a year ago to enter it in a contest but I had to shorten it to 40,000 words.

    I edited it, taking out a lot of descriptive words, honing down the characters, etc, until I had it to the required 40,000 words. That part was not easy to do but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Unfortunately, I lost my characters in the process. I lost the life of the story. I ended up not even submitting it as it just wasn't the same story.

    This wouldn't have been so tragic had I not made a horrible mistake. I accidentally saved over the main copy.Yeah I lost the novel so now I have to rewrite a lot of it.

    Tip # 1. Have a copy of your novel stored on a cd or external hard drive or someplace, even printed out, just in case something happens to the original.

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  • Tiffany B likes this
  • Tiffany B Oh, that is so terribly sad. Thank you for the tip and reminder on saving several copies in different places.