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Fucking Ironic
I just lost an entire piece of prose I stupidly wrote straight onto the edit screen. Not saved anywhere else. Totally original. Representative of lots of hard thought and effort. Valuable (to me if no-one else) and now completely gone.
It was about my career, or lack of it. In an excruciating irony, it, just like my career, is too much hard work to start from scratch and build again. One took 4 hours to get to a point where I was happy, the other took 15 years, but the point still stands.
Lost through no fault of my own. Irretrievable. A heartbreaking waste of time.
Damnit!! I have had that
Damnit!! I have had that happen sooo many times. Ugh!!!
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Thanks
Feeling a bit sheepish about the scale of the hump I got in. I just like reading what I've written back, cos if it's new I usually find out more about what I'm thinking than when the rubbish was souping round in my head.
The sympathetic thought makes a difference :-D
Sorry That Happened
I have lost tons of stuff when a pc is dropped or ruined. I save and create a back up document in word. I also do hard copies now.. Last few days I printed over 300 poems on paper. I don't trust the net. If it goes down, my writing would be lost - so it's in three places. Trying to reconstruct is impossible. ~~Lady A~~
More kind & Practical words
Thank you too. Good tips I usually follow. Thanks most for the "trying to reconstruct is impossible". Don't think anyone other than an instinctive writer whould really get that. Another hard day at the coalface today, so feeling like your words are probably true of the job too. Ahh well. Time to move us to a shack, home school the kids, learn to hunt and forage and write?