djcoomes

djcoomes:

My computer hard drive crashed. Thank goodness I had backed up my writing on an external drive. I would have lost years of work. Don't forget to save and backup everything. Just a friendly reminder.

August 21, 2010 at 10:28PM

rama devi: Great tip. It happened to me too--but I had not backed up in a month, so I lost a month worth of stuff (least year). Back up regularly, that's the key!
March 3, 2013 at 11:35PM

GE Parson: Hey Iowa! Me too, Des Moines area. What part of Iowa are ou from? G.E.Parson
March 19, 2013 at 12:56PM

djcoomes:

I joined fanstory a year ago this month.(2- 2009/2010) Just wanted to say I have enjoyed it immensely. I appreciate all of the members I've gotten to know through their postings and reviewing. Exceptional talent and great people. Thank you all for being in my life. Hugs Darlene

February 26, 2010 at 6:35PM

ABOUT

Location

Iowa

Born	2-20-43

Gender

Female

Member

Standard

Joined

February 2009

Interests

writing, animals

"djcoomes" considers writing about oneself in third person much too pretentious. She'd rather be herself....

My writing expertise, spanning more than twenty-five years, has primarily been centered on advertising copy and public relations material. The work I created commercially was used in brochures, sales support materials, catalogs, media releases, speeches, commercials for radio and television, scripts for slide presentations, video productions, and interactive programs. In addition to the commercial work, I've written two novels, and started two others. Regrettably, unpublished as yet. I love writing poetry and especially rhyming, metered poetry, which is not very popular today. In the last couple of years, I've discovered I enjoy writing short stories; for a while I thought that I didn't. Add a few articles written on this or that, a song or two and that concludes my repertoire. The other day I had a fortune cookie that said "My talents would soon be recognized by the world." I mean. . . is that a sign or what? Look for me on the New York Times Best-Selling List soon!

Writing is a passion, but my love of animals sometimes tips the scale in the other direction. I do love them all, but dogs, horses and cats are at the top of my list. One last thing. . . spay and neuter your pets. Every nine seconds a homeless, unwanted, companion animal is destroyed. Living beings are not disposable! Adopt a homeless pet and support your local animal shelter. They can always use financial help and volunteers. WRITE ON!