>Avoiding a nasty real-life plot twist, a writer dashed past firefighters into a burning New Orleans house Thursday to rescue two completed novels stored on his laptop.
>"Anybody that's ever created art, there's no replacing that," Gideon Hodge, 35, told The New Orleans Advocate after safely making it out of the burning building with the computer. "It's got pretty much my life's work."
So, who of you lot was this?
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>not using online file storage
if you're not smart enough to at least copy paste into a google doc you probably don't have the patience to write a novel
dude was going in for his child porn collection
>Not rare Danish pedosexual non-consensual bestiality.
Broad categories are pleb, find your niche.
what kind of idiot doesn't have a backup? drafts of novels are so small that you can back them up by just emailing them to yourself.
how great would it be if he risks his life in the fire and then finds out that the drive has died and he loses his novels anyway
>not re-writing from scratch
Wow just imagine if the world had lost those masterpieces.
>all those grammar mistakes
Christ. The kind of idiot that isn't going to make it.
>This got published
>You didn't
so what online file storages do you guys use? google docs? icloud?
Xlibris is a self publisher.
i have one novel i'm shopping and another one nearly completed. i've been storing them on multiple drives and devices - and hard copy - but failed to do so online, so if my home caught on fire, i'd be shit out of luck, too. just compressed and sent them to my emails. i guess i will not be running into any burning houses in the near future. thanks, Veeky Forums!
>recently started using amazon cloud to store all my stuff and it seems pretty good if you want a cheap place to store tons of stuff online. If I was only concerned with preserving my writing (and didn't need much space) I would just use Google Docs
Wasn't that nickels to ounces book also done by them?
>Not using backup, online or otherwise.
>Not having the drive to rewrite from scratch.
>Not having a simple escape plan to avoid most of the consequences of a fire.
Literally non-news.
And that's not what's fucked up, this is:
>Vanity publishers allow the mediocre to have the illusion of being published.
>They enable cretins like this author to pretend they matter.
>Author didn't die in the fire along with his shit work.
>The author didn't light himself and his work on fire after realizing what a useless shitbag he is.
>trusting online file storage
I'm just too much of a genius for some asswipe IT admin not to steal my work.
>dude was going in for his child porn collection
>he now has to write two largeish complicated novels to cover the lies
This could be an interesting plot.
>nickels to ounces
Looks like it.
You can usually tell a self-published book from the terrible typography and cover design even before you look at the publisher.
Tell me about it.
>Meanwhile, Detective Brian Canterbury is on the trail of grisly murders that leads him on the trail of a supernatural truth.
>Brian Canterbury
>Canterbury
You leave my city out of your shitty novel reeeeeee
i bet his editor lit the fire
He's self-published. I doubt he even had an editor.
He probably did have the bulk of it on online storage but who knows. It might also be an exaggeration, I doubt the house was an inferno like you see in the movies when someone runs in
>that first fucking sentence
lol, what a dumbass
he could write a whole novel about that incident, but he keeps sticking to his fairytale writing
>saving his porn-collection is not a act of an hero
youtube.com
Here's a promo for his book.
Watch to the end. He tips his FUCKING FEDORA
>that dialogue
>that acting
please make it stop
I think my favourite part ishow half the shit doesn't follow
>not eaten by human teeth
>therefore it's a human who is also a real sicko
It just isn't quite bad enough imo
It's pretty fucking bad. It's not even in a position where it can be so bad it's good.
Holy shit, I didn't think he'd actually do it but then he did.