Pardon me while I kill all technology.
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 20:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sofiavioletSo, I have this program. It's meant for novelists. It has a nifty auto-save feature that has saved my ass a couple of times.
Not this time. I should have known something was up when it didn't prompt me to save my project under a specific name. I've tried to open the backup and all I get is an error message and absolutely no data.
Eight hundred words of outline and five thousand words (of the first part of a five part story) have vanished into the ether.
The only good news is, when I rewrite this, maybe my characters will behave themselves and not decide they're going to have sex in the first chapter. And I do have a very sparse version of that outline in a notebook, that I can consult. And since all of this was written on March 2, 3, and 4, I mostly remember it.
My next attempt to write will be taking place in a notebook, thank you very much.
ETA: In an hour and a half, wrote almost a thousand words of outline just for the part of the story my computer ate. \o/ Will finish rewriting outline when I wake up.
Not this time. I should have known something was up when it didn't prompt me to save my project under a specific name. I've tried to open the backup and all I get is an error message and absolutely no data.
Eight hundred words of outline and five thousand words (of the first part of a five part story) have vanished into the ether.
The only good news is, when I rewrite this, maybe my characters will behave themselves and not decide they're going to have sex in the first chapter. And I do have a very sparse version of that outline in a notebook, that I can consult. And since all of this was written on March 2, 3, and 4, I mostly remember it.
My next attempt to write will be taking place in a notebook, thank you very much.
ETA: In an hour and a half, wrote almost a thousand words of outline just for the part of the story my computer ate. \o/ Will finish rewriting outline when I wake up.
