e article you submitted is suddenly lost and you need to get a copy again. This is easy if you have a copy stored locally on your hard drive, but very difficult if your hard drive fails and you do not have a backup copy stored elsewhere.

There are some services we can back up all of your articles t

There are few things more frustrating than trying to write an article and finding out that the content you wrote has not been saved or is suddenly lost. While technology failures are bound to happen from time to time, there are some things you can do to limit your risks and time wasted.

So here are some tips for writing articles to avoid some common disasters.

First, never use an online tool for writing your content. I strongly recommend using a program like a text editor or Microsoft Word. Beyond the advantages of not using a web-based editor that you could lose your content with, you also have the advantage of having a spell-check and word count feature and can save your work to a local hard drive easily.

Second, save your work frequently. I recommend saving work at least every five minutes. That way, if ever you lose your work due to a power failure or something more sinister you won't have lost more than five minutes worth of work. Microsoft word has an automatic save feature which will do this for you without thinking.

Third, it's almost as important to back up your existing articles as it is to save your work frequently while you are writing articles. You may find that the article you submitted is suddenly lost and you need to get a copy again. This is easy if you have a copy stored locally on your hard drive, but very difficult if your hard drive fails and you do not have a backup copy stored elsewhere.

There are some services we can back up all of your articles t

some tips for writing articles to avoid some common disasters.

First, never use an online tool for writing your content. I strongly recommend using a program like a text editor or Microsoft Word. Beyond the advantages of not using a web-based editor that you could lose your content with, you also have the advantage of having a spell-check and word count feature and can save your work to a local hard drive easily.

Second, save your work frequently. I recommend saving work at least every five minutes. That way, if ever you lose your work due to a power failure or something more sinister you won't have lost more than five minutes worth of work. Microsoft word has an automatic save feature which will do this for you without thinking.

Third, it's almost as important to back up your existing articles as it is to save your work frequently while you are writing articles. You may find that the article you submitted is suddenly lost and you need to get a copy again. This is easy if you have a copy stored locally on your hard drive, but very difficult if your hard drive fails and you do not have a backup copy stored elsewhere.

There are some services we can back up all of your articles t

ave the advantage of having a spell-check and word count feature and can save your work to a local hard drive easily.

Second, save your work frequently. I recommend saving work at least every five minutes. That way, if ever you lose your work due to a power failure or something more sinister you won't have lost more than five minutes worth of work. Microsoft word has an automatic save feature which will do this for you without thinking.

Third, it's almost as important to back up your existing articles as it is to save your work frequently while you are writing articles. You may find that the article you submitted is suddenly lost and you need to get a copy again. This is easy if you have a copy stored locally on your hard drive, but very difficult if your hard drive fails and you do not have a backup copy stored elsewhere.

There are some services we can back up all of your articles t

on't have lost more than five minutes worth of work. Microsoft word has an automatic save feature which will do this for you without thinking.

Third, it's almost as important to back up your existing articles as it is to save your work frequently while you are writing articles. You may find that the article you submitted is suddenly lost and you need to get a copy again. This is easy if you have a copy stored locally on your hard drive, but very difficult if your hard drive fails and you do not have a backup copy stored elsewhere.

There are some services we can back up all of your articles t

e article you submitted is suddenly lost and you need to get a copy again. This is easy if you have a copy stored locally on your hard drive, but very difficult if your hard drive fails and you do not have a backup copy stored elsewhere.

There are some services we can back up all of your articles to a web site automatically each night. For example xdrive.com, will let you to do this and is completely free for up to 5 GB worth of data.

In addition, it's not a bad idea to make a backup copy to a CD or DVD once per month. I do this myself every month, and it saved me a few times when a hard drive unexpectedly crashes.

So, whether you will be writing one article or 10 articles per day I hope this short checklist will limit the frustrations you feel from a technology failure.