Technology Challenged? You're Not Alone

By Debra DuPree Williams @DDuPreeWilliams

For a while now, I’ve been having hints that my computer was on its last legs. Never a good thing for anyone, but for a writer—it can be disastrous, especially if your work hasn’t been backed up.

Now, I have an external hard drive that backs up my files every night. I also have a thumb drive that, if I remember to do so, has my files on it. Problem is, I can never remember how to use the thing and I rarely remember to use it in the first place.

Here I am today, working away on things I need to get done this week. My husband waves goodbye to me through our front porch window which opens to my office. I am about to go to my WIP (work in progress) to do a few more edits. Now, hubby had just helped me put other files on a flash drive he had and then I emailed them off to where they needed to be. I told myself, Get him to help you put your files on your thumb drive. But, I got wrapped up in what I was doing and simply forgot.