NEW RELEASES
I’m in mourning
I’ve been working on book two of my proposed series and I just discovered
chapters 12 – 18 are missing.
Gone. Vanished. Poof.
They are nowhere to be found. Not in the external hard drive. Not in any of the sent mail from any of my several email accounts. Not lingering around in some misnamed folder.
The only chance I have is if some wizard can squeeze them out of the hard drive of my dead laptop. I’m sure that’s where I wrote those particular chapters.
The idea of recreating them is very daunting and I honestly just want to cry.
7 chapters. UGH.
From now on, email everything you write to yourself, then you’ll always have it. It only takes seconds to do, and it doesn’t matter how many revisions you do, every one will automatically be dated for you, plus you can even do a keyword search of the email account, and find any passage in an instant. In fact, you could open an account for this soul purpose (or even one for each project), and do it every time you finish a section…. just make sure it’s one of the free accounts that hold all your email forever, such as gmail or yahoo. I can’t tell you how many times yahoo and gmail have saved something I’d otherwise have lost to computer crashes. Face it, we all have them. It’s even easier than using a thumb drive, and it’s accessible from any computer anywhere that has internet.
You’re preaching to the choir. I do this all the time. ALL THE TIME. However, I have searched every email account I have. This time there is nothing.