Hard copies

[GuiltyPleasure]

Do you make them or rely on digital? How do you store them? In a binder? alphabetically? By subject....nature, narrative, form etc?

signed - Inquiring mind

 

[Desejo]

I am on a never-ending quest to get rid of things, especially paper. The shredder is my friend.

I store everything in Scribophile, backed up on an external drive.

The only things I print out these days are things I need to sign, like contracts.

 

[1millionsecrets]

I love to write... On paper.
It gives what you have written a finger print. It makes it more personal.
I store them in 17 binders, all arranged in chronological order.

 

[butters]

I love to write... On paper.
It gives what you have written a finger print. It makes it more personal.
I store them in 17 binders, all arranged in chronological order.

i wish i were as organised as you

in old folders, there are some from ten years back or more (not in any order - some handwritten, others printed), then there are print outs in various ideas of 'collections' i organised them into... these changed with time so now they're mixed up anyway; i used to store everything on my pc's hard drive but lost all those records when my old pc went kaputz, but still had most in printout. now i store some on my pc, and everything new i write is here on Lit so i can access them if i ever lose pc records again. not that they're really in any sort of order now, at all. *sigh*

when i retire (hah, that's a few years off yet, around 13 at least if they don't move it even further upwards) i might just get around to putting things in their proper order. maaaaybeee

 

[Neonurotic]

I don't make hard copies since I don't share my writing with anyone offline. I just submit poetry to Literotica for my personal archives.

 

[Desejo]

I don't make hard copies since I don't share my writing with anyone offline. I just submit poetry to Literotica for my personal archives.

That's true for me too. Another reason I do not keep hard copies around is that I have curious children, and when I come home I often find things slightly different than when I left them. Would I have read my mother's writing if I found it? You betcha.

 

[1millionsecrets]

That's true for me too. Another reason I do not keep hard copies around is that I have curious children, and when I come home I often find things slightly different than when I left them. Would I have read my mother's writing if I found it? You betcha.

The children thing is probably the.only reason I would ever stop using paper...

I'm still young though and it takes up space in my.otherwise empty apartment.

 

[Angeline]

I keep most of my backlog of poems on cds. I occasionally print out a copy of a poem if I want to send it somewhere but that's pretty rare. I have back up cds with poems on them. I'm pretty careful about keeping track of them since I managed to lose one in our move from Maine. It was a cd that had a lot of illustrated poems on it and when I think how hard I worked on some of them I could still shed a tear.

 

[bronzeage]

I have paper copies of most of my poems because of poetry readings. There's no real organization. Poetry readings saved my entire library.

I was asked to read some of my work and my printer had broken down. I put the entire directory on a flashdrive and took it to another computer. A few weeks later, my computer had a hard crash and nothing on the hard drive could be recovered.

Fortunately, the flashdrive had everything, from poems, to stories, to novels.

I find proof reading to be very difficult on a monitor. For some reason, typos, misspellings and errant punctuation marks leap off a printed page. My standard proof reading technique is to read the entire thing out loud to some patient victim. I keep a couple high lighter in hand. Later, I take the printed pages and make corrections on the digital copies.

 

[Maria2394]

I keep hard copies and also have an email I use just for storage, as well as Literotica.


Hi Tess!

 

[bogusagain]

Most of my poems have disappeared into the ether. Many I don't miss but some I regret losing. I keep promising myself to print a book of my best poems or at least he ones I like best, which I suspect many people wouldn't call poetry anyway.

 

[corndog_]

Rarely. Hard copies kill the poem.

I almost always find something to change in every poem I open, so I just keep them digitally. Until the scythe of hard drive failure strikes.

I like Desejo's idea.

 

[corndog_]

I keep hard copies and also have an email I use just for storage, as well as Literotica.


Hi Tess!

Hi Maria!

 

[corndog_]

I wrote a poem after a close friend's death and gave it to his mother. This holiday I heard from some of his siblings about where they have placed the poem in their own homes. Apparently she made copies for all of them. Yikes!

 

[bronzeage]

If anyone wants a true hard copy of their work, I can recommend Best Value Copy. It's easy and economical. You edit your poems or whatever into the format you like and convert it to a PDF file. I was surprised how simple it was. I had 10 copies of my book printed to give as gifts to people who helped me. It was about $5 a copy, including shipping.

 

[Maria2394]

I don't make hard copies since I don't share my writing with anyone offline. I just submit poetry to Literotica for my personal archives.

blood oranges and Sasebo
my memories of you




I sure have missed you!

 

[Maria2394]

Hi Maria!

hello corndog!!!

awesome to see you, and your stick

I hope you are well and still writing.

 

[Maria2394]

That's true for me too. Another reason I do not keep hard copies around is that I have curious children, and when I come home I often find things slightly different than when I left them. Would I have read my mother's writing if I found it? You betcha.

Your post made me smile. My mom wrote poetry for me, subjects ranged from my pets to politics as I got older. When she passed, my sisters and I discovered she had been writing erotica since I was a small child Wow, did that embarrass me. I didn't know she had it in her! and, it was really good, too.

I am keeping hard copies because I am not that great with computers and when the grid goes down, I need something to edit....

 

[champagne1982]

Helloooo everyone, all I can say about all of your writing is that I wish I still had many of my pm collaborations with a few of you. There were some real gems in those. As well I am glad that most of your stuff is still accessible right here so I can always read what you're being poetical about.

A friend from my digitized past always pestered me for hard copies so that he could (if I consented) turn them into a chap book for me. I tend to think that my writing is fine on sheets of printer paper and tucked into a slew of report covers. That being said, I have many of my poems on a few cds but most everything is now stored on an external hard drive. It's got great capacity and I can upload or download and restore onto any device I choose, much like a flash drive (I have a couple of these too).

Keep sharing.

 

[Neonurotic]

blood oranges and Sasebo
my memories of you




I sure have missed you!

MMm you.

 

[Neonurotic]

I wrote a poem after a close friend's death and gave it to his mother. This holiday I heard from some of his siblings about where they have placed the poem in their own homes. Apparently she made copies for all of them. Yikes!

My wife and I split, but I kept the wedding poem you wrote for us. And it's in hard copy.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I keep hard copies and also have an email I use just for storage, as well as Literotica.


Hi Tess!

Hi sweets! I'm slow replying because I only just saw this. It's always good to see you. Hope all goes well for you in 2014.

 

[corndog_]

My wife and I split, but I kept the wedding poem you wrote for us. And it's in hard copy.

I'm honored.

And I hope you're doing well. Such experiences are never easy, even when they are the best decision.