*bashes head on keyboard*

Working on my fics I usually save my work out of paranoia after every line, but there are those moments when I get in a 'flow state' and write like madman. Just experienced that fleshing out my latest chapter.

Sadly my laptop chose this time to crash and I lost most of those several hundred words. I did my best to recreate them, but it feels like a shallow copy, argh. Same thing happened when I wrote the climax to Mating Season of the Witch.

Ah well, take a deep breath and hope I can recapture my mojo. Sucks when I lose it on my day off, as that's usually the only time I can do some heavy writing.

Comments

[Banshee531]

I've been there, but I've found a way to save your work. Have two pages on fimfiction. One is the page you're writing on and the other is the story's main page when you can look through the chapters. After saving, refresh the main page and the word count will match your current count. So even if you system crashes and you appear to lose words, the main page should still be linked to what you've done before. Just click onto that and down hit the save button one your writing page.

[Dr Sharaz Jek]

5290875
Good idea! Wish I'd known that for Mating Season of the Witch, as it would have saved me lots of grief.

[Final fantasy forever]

That has happened to me before. I wanted to scream

[Dr Sharaz Jek]

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Hopefully you were able to write something even better next time!

[AndwhatIseeisme]

Oh man, that sucks. A similar thing happend to me with one of my stories for DLS's contest, where a sudden power outage wiped like 600 words from one of my stories. Really sapped my interest in that one, and I kind of half-assed the rewrite. Ended up being one of my lowest rated stories. I guess the moral is make sure you put the same amount of care the second time around, and don't let it demotivate you. Oh, and don't write 600 words in the middle of a thunder storm without saving.

[Dr Sharaz Jek]

5291273
Sorry to hear that, guess it happens to lots of writers!

[Final fantasy forever]

5291201
I did wind up revising some things yes, and getting something I would call better

[Dr Sharaz Jek]

5291610
Excellent!

[Final fantasy forever]

5291612
Indeed, I'm glad for that