Writing digitally is great!
For the purpose of writing, I couldn't go back to the days of hand cramp and blotting paper. (Yes, I used to write in fountain pen and have blotting paper; a quaint and terribly ink-stained situation.)
Yet there's perils lurking here too.
Guess who typed out all smart and neat the plot for books 2 and 3 of Caledan a few months ago? Yes, me!
....Guess who now can't find the files anywhere. Yep. Me.
I could have sworn they'd be on my usual hard drive, or the myriad of USBs I keep for backups and working files, or even on the cloud (that darn awesome thing), given that I always back up stuff to at least two places. Apparently not!
Guess who wants to kick herself really hard right about now, because she knows better than to not back up files or to delete them like a complete idiot. Yep, me. What. An. Idiot.
* * *
Guess what I just found in the deleted files on my cloud? ... Yep, the file I was looking for. What on earth possessed me to delete it? Heaven knows. Am I glad I found it? You have no idea!
So unlike an essay a few months back (deleted by mistake and as it turns out, unrecoverable... oh the pain!), this tale has a happy ending.
The moral of the story?
Back stuff up EVERYWHERE!
And then some other places!
Chances are you'll get immensely annoyed about tripping over the same files over and over again, but goodness it's worth it just not to lose anything.
Phew.
Off to make a celebratory cup of tea...
Ciao for now,
Meg
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