When will I learn??? · 4:20pm Jul 30th, 2015
I'm so pissed off right now. I'm ready to send this piece of shit laptop off my balcony. Not only has the infernal thing given me more grief in 5 days than my other laptop gave me in 2 years, (never buy a Toshiba... ever) but it also caused me to lose something wonderful. I've had this happen to me twice now, each time on this story. I don't know why the universe wants me not to write this story, but there must be a reason. Why else would I be tormented so? Each time I write something brilliant, something so perfect, I could never write it better, and I'd never be able to write it twice, I lose it all. It gets deleted. Twice now. Each time, the passage alone was over 1,000 words. There's absolutely no way I could replicate it perfectly. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. I would have ha the chapter finished by tonight, but I...I just can't. I'm stricken with grief over this loss. It's a tragedy of unspeakable misfortune. Without having read this passage, you would never understand. I'm so very sorry you'll never have that pleasure. It was beautiful. I absolutely cannot work on this tonight. It may be a week or so before I work up the nerve to take another swing at it. I'll then have to settle for whatever mediocrity takes the place of that marvelous work of art.
:( Sucks man, I know that feeling. That's why I always work on a usb stick now. As for replicating it... even if it's an echo, I think you should still try to scour the feeling, or what's left of it, from your mind.
The story isn't in your computer, but in you. It'll come to you if it's meant to.
Also, this is why I write my stories in Googledocs.
3282262 I know. I need to start doing that. I'm not even sure this piece of crap will even load gdocs though...
3282259 Well, that's what I did last time, but... it's never the same, y'know? That's like losing a child and trying to replace it with another. You'll always compare them, and you'll always be disappointed. This was one of the best scenes I've ever written, and it's gone forever.
maybe take a picture of everything you have on a separate device every so often if you can't use gdocs?