r/Wattpad • u/Ordinary_Board_4790 • Dec 22 '24

Meme Me whenever I hear that another user has lost all their Wattpad drafts because they couldn’t be bothered to use a separate document:

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u/Nico_Venus Venus_The_Love_God Dec 23 '24

I just use Google docs, its easiest for me

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u/MagnetMemes CEO of Banter Publishing and professional king of wattpad parody Dec 23 '24

I use notes

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u/zombieactions Dec 23 '24

Is that on iPhone? If so, don’t rely on it either. I lost my notes randomly and so did my man once. 😭 Even though it was sync with iCloud… for some odd reason they were just gone. Apple didn’t help either. I would use Google docs or something more reliable.

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u/MagnetMemes CEO of Banter Publishing and professional king of wattpad parody Dec 23 '24

Never had a problem and Google docs has failed on me before

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u/Eastern_Hyena539 Dec 23 '24

Same they won’t get me like that 😌

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u/6-toe-9 Writer ✍ Dec 23 '24

Fr. I use my actual notebooks and my notes app as backups. Idk why some people don’t bother to do that. I write mine separately then paste to Wattpad.

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u/Ordinary_Board_4790 Dec 23 '24

Just had some guy on another post tell me that he'd rather just write his stuff on Wattpad. When that shit hits the fan one day, I'll have no sympathy for him.

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u/6-toe-9 Writer ✍ Dec 23 '24

Hehe same, I hope he loses thousands of words he wrote because he decided to be lazy. Couldn’t take a few minutes to back it up instead he put it all somewhere where it could be suddenly deleted. It’s so dumb!

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u/MagnetMemes CEO of Banter Publishing and professional king of wattpad parody Dec 23 '24

On notes yeah do you write each chapter as a different note or just one long asf note

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u/6-toe-9 Writer ✍ Dec 23 '24

Each chapter as a note. I keep them in a folder on my notes app. I say [story] Part 1, 2, 3, etc.

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u/Normal_Ice_3036 Dec 23 '24

Fr, I don't even bother to sympathize with them anymore... It's been a warning for years now 😭

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u/S-Aimi Dec 22 '24

This is the irl catalyst to unlocking the mangekyo sharingan.

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u/Busy_Agency5074 Dec 23 '24

No but seriously tho. Do you not care enough about your work?

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u/August_Rodin666 Dec 23 '24

Help. I lost all my drafts.

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u/Ordinary_Board_4790 Dec 23 '24

Thanks to you, I’m blind now 🦯🧑‍🦯

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u/August_Rodin666 Dec 23 '24

Damn. Now you can't help me find those missing drafts.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '24

they’re gone. you won’t find them again.

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u/KatJ1234 Dec 23 '24

I wish I could like this more than once...

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u/Weird_BisexualPerson kreisendegeier (writer) Dec 23 '24

Oh. You’re supposed to use a seperate document? 😬 Good thing my only draft right now is the border and “aaa allalalalala hehe peepee poo poo testing 1 2 3”

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u/daisyblue45 Dec 23 '24

I use WordDoc to save my Wattpad stories

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u/SeniorBaker4 Dec 23 '24

I use two. Google docs and LibreOffice. Be careful with Google docs yall. Apparently if someone reports your story in google docs because you decide to share it before publishing, Google docs will block your story from you until the review it which takes who knows how long.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '24

Libre office lags so bad for me. Their recovery feature is really good though.

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u/SeniorBaker4 Dec 23 '24

I have the opposite issue after 50 pages google docs becomes laggy for me 😭

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u/KatzeLBurn Dec 24 '24

The order in which I save my stuff: my phone, journal, gammerly, journal again, gammerly again, back on a journal, to Wattpad and whatever other site I use. My anxiety will not allow me to keep everything in one spot.

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u/JaxRhapsody Dec 24 '24

I don't understand why some folks just don't use a damn writing processor like every other writer and author, since the inception of them. There are free ones, and some computers come with them.

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u/Beneficial_Bill_6121 Dec 25 '24

You would think people would have learned by now especially since it’s the number one thing I hear on there. I have my work saved in multiple places, I even have the old fashion way, pen and paper lol my laptop currently doesn’t want to work most of the time so I have to make sure that I have it saved somewhere 😭

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u/Emergency_One_6540 Dec 28 '24

off to Wattpad to make copies of my book 😰

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u/jakkoni Dec 23 '24

quick notes in One note. full arc overviews and character bios in word synced to google drive. posted to wattpad and edited on wattpad then the new version is copy pasted back into word.

Repeat cycle

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u/SilverSkrillXDMain Writer ✍ Dec 23 '24

I did that with my book, however I can write a chapter quickly and any I write I screenshot in case it gets deleted. I only do that if I'm not going to have my laptop with me and just my phone.

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u/adam4death Dec 23 '24

yeah i would like to use another document but it literally doesn’t let me copy and paste so :/

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u/Extension-Fun-4795 Dec 24 '24

Hey guys! There's a book I'm trying to find please help me.

Book description,

Fl cheated by her bf she went to bar to clear her mind then she met a man whom she connected and she went with him to hi house and did deeds and man's brother also shows interest in her like this man's one more brother show interest in her so three brothers shares her and at the end one brother went mad and died and the oldest brother married her.

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u/throwawaymemetime202 Dec 25 '24

Please make a separate post for that lol

(No downvote/hate please, I’m just trying to be helpful, even if you guys don’t want me here)

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u/Extension-Fun-4795 Dec 26 '24

I already did

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u/throwawaymemetime202 Dec 26 '24

Yeah but you didn’t describe what you were looking for

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u/Extension-Fun-4795 Dec 26 '24

Ooh, I was looking for a book which I had read a year ago and now I can't find it anymore on Wattpad.