Write well. Write often. Edit wisely.
Celebrating because my web host finally got the blog back up and running! My apologies to those who couldn’t access the blog for the past few days. Apparently there was trouble migrating the domain to a new server, but there should be no more problems with access now.
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Write well. Write often. Edit wisely.
Awesome!! I always get such good information from your blogs!
I’ll second what Jan said! Your blog is so valuable for experienced and novice editors alike, not to mention writers. So happy for you that it’s up and running again!
Good. Missed this site. I just wish I knew what a migrating domain looked like. Herds, pairs or just individuals? lol
Robert, I think the poor domain was migrating as an individual. Maybe that’s why it got lost on the way.
Thanks, Jan and Arlene. I’m glad to be back up and glad to know you find the posts helpful.
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I’m glad you’re back.
You always give me inspiration to continue. You seem much more relaxed about grammar, while encouraging writers to get it right. Happy to be able to read more.
So happy that you’re back! I come to browse the archives for help and inspiration. If you ever put it all in a book, that would be great. (I’ve bought the Magic of Fiction already.)
Thanks, Maribel.
The great thing about fiction is that you can relax the rules sometimes. Clarity and consistency are still important, but rigidity can cause worse problems than grammar errors cause.
Verna, I’m glad to be able to provide encouragement and inspiration as well as recommendations for rules. And as a matter of fact, a few years ago I started putting together a book of blog articles on inspiring the writer. I guess I need to pull that back out and finish it up. Thanks for the prompt to do that.
Congratulations! That must have been very trying for you.
Mark, when you can’t do anything to fix something that’s broken, it’s hard to sit back and rely on others. But the company is always polite and professional when I talk to them, so I assumed they’d eventually get it fixed.
As filmmakers in the digital age, our data is our most valuable asset. If you lose your data, you lose your work, and possibly your professional reputation. And yet, for some reason, many editors and filmmakers don’t keep robust backups. The culprit is a simple psychological concept: backing up properly requires immediate, clear sacrifices (time and money), in order to protect against an uncertain future scenario. It’s easy to get lazy about backups.
Eden, you’re wondering if I had backups? I did. The problem wasn’t that the data wasn’t available but that something happened during the switch to a new server. We never got to the point that they needed any data from me. Which was great in my opinion. But I certainly agree that backups are necessary.