It's already tomorrow.

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday isn't the sort of day that's easy to blog about. It was the humdrum sort of day that most professional writers have most days.

We are only two chapters and the "editor's epilogue" from being finished with the galley pages for The Red Tree. I expect I'll be able to get them back into the mail tomorrow. I might have finished with the page

Comments

[robyn_ma]

'Here's a question: Is there some relatively simple way that I can archive all my LJ and Blogger entries, somewhere less likely to go poof than either Blogger or LJ?'

Well, there's ljbook.com, which saves your entire LJ as a ginormous PDF.

If I were you, though, I'd be thinking about a complete copy-and-paste of the Low Red Moon journals into a word doc, tedious as that sounds. It's the Only Way to Be Sure.

One thing you could also do while you're doing that is compile all your thoughts on movies you've seen into a chapbook which might be titled Caitlín Kiernan's Watching, after Unca Harlan's own book, and yeah, I can already hear you laughing hollowly and saying 'Nnnno,' so, no. I'd totally buy it, though! And so would Zac Efron!

[greygirlbeast]

If I were you, though, I'd be thinking about a complete copy-and-paste of the Low Red Moon journals into a word doc, tedious as that sounds. It's the Only Way to Be Sure.

That's sort of what I was thinking.

One thing you could also do while you're doing that is compile all your thoughts on movies you've seen into a chapbook which might be titled Caitlín Kiernan's Watching, after Unca Harlan's own book, and yeah, I can already hear you laughing hollowly and saying 'Nnnno,' so, no.

Thing is, Unca Harlan's commentary is far more entertaining than mine.

[robyn_ma]

'Thing is, Unca Harlan's commentary is far more entertaining than mine.'

Naah, all you have to do is add sentences like 'This reminds me of the time I nailed a studio exec's head to a coffee table' or 'And then I mailed a dead gopher to the publisher fourth class.'

[greygirlbeast]

Naah, all you have to do is add sentences like 'This reminds me of the time I nailed a studio exec's head to a coffee table' or 'And then I mailed a dead gopher to the publisher fourth class.'

Gods, I love the gopher story.

[jtglover]

Don't know your archiving preferences, but I use LJ-Book on those should-be-more-frequent occasions when I back up my journal. Creates a PDF with various kinds of information encoded, depending on your wishes, and can include privacy levels up to "private."

[greygirlbeast]

The PDF option is an interesting route, and one of which I was was unaware. Thanks.

[msree]

ljarchive rocks for Windows users, but there doesn't seem to be any Mac version.

[iterum]

I use XJournal, which is also a client for updating; it will back up all your entries to a Mac harddrive -- although not comments.

[greygirlbeast]

-- although not comments.

That's a shame.

[cocoajava]

LJ Archive, mentioned above, works really well.

[msree]

If you want a complete copy of your LJ elsewhere online, comments preserved and everything, your best bet is to get a Dreamwidth account and use its importer. Dreamwidth is still in beta, so you'll need to pay or get an invite code; I've a spare invite that you can have.

If you'd prefer to have an LJ backup that lives on your hard drive, there's this. Can't offer any personal experiences as I'm not a Mac user.