Arrrrrggggghhhhhh stupid bloody computer!!!!!!!!!!

[vyperdd]

Was about 500 words in doing a fill for spn_masquerade and no I'm not saying which prompt :p and my laptop froze. Couldn't even copy the text to paste into another doc and I didn't think to write it out longhand before I did the only thing I could -- a cold reboot.

Now I have to try to recreate what I had written and I just know it's not going to be as good. Oh well, lesson learnt, I suppose.

On a slightly happier note-- Welcome back Windows 7!!!! I have missed you so much and am so, so sorry for dumping you for that awful Windows 10 upgrade. Will promise to never do that again!!!

Comments

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

I don't lose computer files, I just have unexpected lock-ups sometimes so I have figured out a way to save my LJ entries as I'm writing them. I frequently do long entries off line in Word then cut and paste into LJ. Haven't done that recently though.

[vyperdd.livejournal.com]

I'm normally really paranoid about doing frequent back-ups when I'm writing and have all my writing programmes set to auto-update every couple of minutes. However this fic was new so I should have saved it after just a few sentences which would then trigger the auto-backup feature but I was so in the zone of writing it that I forgot. Won't ever do that again!! way too stressful, esp when the fic was turning out really good.