For privacy concerns, I don't want to leave a record that I'm writing erotic stories. I also don't want my family to stumble upon my stories on my computer by accident. So with that in mind, what are good places to edit and save your stories?
I thought about Google docs but that's linked to my google account. I could create another one but it's so much work and I'll use that as the last resort.
Lushstories doesn't have a 'Save Drafts' feature, correct?
Anyway, any recommendation is welcome!
I work off of a password protected laptop, give my drafts uninteresting/misleading titles, and save them within a folder I also use for Warranty information and other equally boring things. It gets the job done and I've never had anyone stumble upon my works-in-progress.
I suppose, if these steps were insufficient, one could work off of a thumb drive and hide it in between writing sessions. They even make encrypted thumb drives.
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I work in Mac Pages and save stories to my cloud. There is a feature, a new one, that allows you to back up and save all of your Lush stories. It saves them to a folder you can store on your computer or upload the cloud.
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Google Docs. Makes collaboration and editing easy.
I keep mine in the cloud, on Google Drive. I'm in a similar straits to you but have my own passworded profile on the computers I use and it's more convenient (and less likely to be lost) than toting a thumb drive around.
I just compose them in the Lush submission box, and save the drafts until they're finished and ready to submit. But I back them up on my Macbook Pro and my email. I don't have anyone I need to hide anything from, so secrecy is never an issue with me.
I use Word and there is a password security save feature. I don't use it at home but I do at work for work documents.
On my tablet and I send to myself in email in case my tablet crashes.
(Yes, my old Nook tablet crashed 3 times, the last one fatally. I have a beautiful Nexus 7 that never ever crashes. But I still email the drafts to myself, just in case.)
I use the Jotter Pad HD app.
On public bathroom walls all over the country. Then I take a selfie and do second draft from hat picture on a 1936 Underwood typewriter.
Google Docs. I'm notorious for losing flash drives.
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Google Docs in a dedicated folder.
Google Docs. The Lush draft area has deleted too much of my writing because it didn't save.
I create all my stories in word - sometimes in notepad if their just poems. I save them to my hard drive and back them up onto a removable drive. I have password protected drives in any case. I would never use the internet to store things - that's just so unsafe. I copy to Lush when I submit them
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On my laptop, in Word, in a locked folder - lots of freeware on the net to lock folders. Backed up on Evernote.
I have a separate profile on my computer and only through that profile can my online storage backups be accessed. I'm the only one who can access the profile and thus everything in it is private for me only.
But I self-publish so I also have my own computer for writing (a dedicated tablet that's only for writing - no net surfing, etc).
In the beginning, when I was just publishing for free here at Lush, I used my phone and once a story was done and published I backed up the copy to my online storage and then deleted from my phone.
I just store it at the most uninteresting file folder possible on my computer tucked away in a long list of other folders- i think its easiest and does not require any expense, any extra passwords to remember and so on..
I have similar concerns to the OP.
I have worked out how to save them as drafts on Lush now, but before then I saved them as draft emails on a password protected, personal webmail account.
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Well for me, I start with password-protecting my computer. Then I have all my stories on an external hard drive. I would love to learn to use the "cloud" but technical support up here is hard to come by and any books on it have baffled me (I am by nature a "show me then let me do it" learner)
But since my wife Sugarbaby is here also I don't really have a problem with anyone finding out I write "dirty stories"! So this works for me. The kids can't access my computer and no one else comes around to try.
All my stories are written in word. My poems are written in notepad.
I save everything to a memory stick and My cloud. I also have Lushes text files to memory stick and cloud also.
My husband knows I write so there is no reason to hide or be embarrassed.
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Everythimg is saved twice. To cloud and to my 4tb server.
Maybe this sounds paranoid but I save two copies on separate external drives attached to my own desktop, both password protected.
I wouldn't use the cloud, or any internet site's facilities for work in progress because you have NO guarantee that other people can't read your work. Furthermore you have no control (or even knowledge) over where any of that is stored as back-ups.
It isn't that I have had a bad experience, but until I retired my job was computer security, and I know how much power I had to access other people's work. I know that “XYZ Inc.” are a reputable company and only hire trusted people, but in my forensic work I saw so many crooks ...
