[DollyCali]

bob i hope you can publish your work. I do understand what you mean regarding the challenge. I began my humor books (14 of them going at one time) about 6 years ago. Had a virus problem & lost my hard drive... of course I had NOTHING backed up. I was sick. REALLY sick over it.

Have half heartedly started again but the enthusiasm is not like it was then. They were topical books.. with humor, poetry, art work , toons, my original essays ... I thought they were good & many of them were about done.

My own stupidity for not backing up.

[NicknamedBob]

I could do better about backing up my creations.

Among other things, though, I like the feel of a book in my hand. I have gone through a few contortions with my printers to get that feeling, and I like to proofread from printed copy.

I've printed out that list of posted poems, and if my hard drive crashes, I can always just look up the posting addresses, like this one, titled Fog Flowers.

Fog Flowers ... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1303474/posts?page=212#212