My writing for the past two weeks has been admittedly hard won. I’m still fighting a turn-my-brain-to-slush virus, and am also muddling my way through essays and exams for uni. So every word on the rewrite has been slow, overthought and precious.
At some point last night, while I was happily dreaming of cat-shaped slippers, my laptop undertook an auto update. Of what, I have no idea. All I know is that this morning when I flipped open my laptop, my array of word docs, scrivener files, excel sheets and google searches were all alarmingly absent.
It took another thirty seconds to discover that my past two weeks of work were gone, too.
Did I cry hysterically? Yep.
Did I declare the end of my writing career? Absolutely.
Is there any chocolate, biscuits or ice cream left in the house? Hell no.
So now as the crumbs are dusted off my shirt and the chocolate smudges wiped off the keyboard (and couch, pillows, walls, TV remote and carpet), I’m left to contemplate the thousands of words lost and the little rejigs that made the chapters flow better.
A friend kindly pointed out that this is an opportunity to do better, since I hadn’t been happy with my writing for the past fortnight. I know she’s right, and the manuscript will be enriched because of it.
I just need another packet of biscuits before I get started.
Noooooooo! I’m definitely doing a backup this afternoon now! 🙂
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Oh no!
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That really sucks!!! Hope your re-done work is fresher and brighter and turns out better anyway 🙂
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Thanks, Fiona! I’m sure it will 🙂
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I’m screaming and crying inside with you. I had something similar happen and now I save often and back up my file onto a jump drive.
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It’s a painful lesson to be sure 🙂 I’m now saving and backing up like crazy!
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That’s the worst! Have you been able to find any of it? Something like this happened to me a few years ago, but my husband is a computer programmer and was able to recover some of my story from the hard drive.
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