&*$%^%)(*&$# blogging!!!
Darn, you know you can never write it from memory the same way twice! grumble grumble arrrgh!
Aaaahhh well, back to the drawing board. I guess it's MS Word from now on....
posted by SB Gypsy | 5:57 PM
7 Comments:
i know the feeling all too well... having your genius sucked into cyberspace without a whimper. blogger has usurped my first drafts enough that i went to ms word a while ago. life has enough stress without having your creativity siphoned off by software/server malfuctions. f^ck THAT.
Oh MAN, really! The feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw it was gone...
Yeah, it's a nasty and hollow feeling when that happens. And it always seems to happen on posts you've spent mondo time and energy on. What I hate most is when I've done lots of online research and the post is full of links and quotes. I usually do the web research in the moment, I never have a list of the sources used anywhere but in the post itself. It hasn't happened for a while now.
For some reason, writing in Word for the Web hasn't been very good for me. I haven't quite figured out how to transfer the formating and links properly.
Well, I know that you can save an MS word doc as a web page, so perhaps that's what I'll have to do. I only get to work on essays on the weekend, so maybe next Saturday... At least I have the overall form of it in my head!
Sorry to hear about losing your post. We never compose online in blogger. Too many horror stories like yours. We just use our little text-edit program that comes with our Macs. We don't do any formatting on the text page, so it uploads very nicely. We then do all of the formatting in blogger. We get the links we want while we are first composing off line. Keep them on the page to add as links in blogger. It may take a little longer, but we don't lose posts. The reason we don't like to use MSWord is that Word seems to imbed commands and stuff that blogger sometimes has a hard time with.
Hi RD,
I confess I was wondering if blogger could take a Word doc. I will use the little wordpad, it's faster anyway. If I save it in the text editor, at least I'll have a copy if blogger lets me down. Great idea!
...but have you saved it to a text file or wordpad? I find if I plan to write something lengthy, type it in wordpad... and save it, then open blogger to publish. I'm sorry for the awful experience. Oh, I see Rexroth's Daughter and Dread Pirate Roberts both gave you that advice. Great minds think alike:)
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