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inzilbethI hate computers! I've always hated them and after last night I hate them with an even greater passion.
I spend about two hours yesterday evening finally kicking into shape an extra chapter for Aspects of Aragorn. It had been a bit of a pig and I'd been getting nowhere fast with it. So you can imagine my relief when I went to click 'save', fully intending to send it onto Cairistiona and Passolargo for their invaluable opinions.
Well I'm still not quite sure what happen, but the computer did not save it. It was nowhere to be found. Fortunately I have a good friend those knowledge of computers is inversely proportional to my own. But after an hour on the phone, he sadly pronounced my chapter well and truly lost for good. All 11 pages of it!
I didn't burst into tears. It was only a chapter, I told myself; no one died. It was by now after 10pm and I had been up since 4am. I was of half a mind to abandon the whole thing but instead, and I'm quite proud of myself for doing this, I turned around and started rewriting it, though looking at that first line with 11 more pages to go was very daunting. I kept going until 11.30pm at which point I was writing total gibberish. Thankfully, I've not in work this week, so today, I shelved all my plans for the day and kept at it all morning. Five hours later it is at least recognisable as the same chapter though there are still no end of frustrating bits that just don't read the same this time round.
The moral of this story: never ever work on anything without a copy of the original somewhere else. I certainly never want to do that again.
Oh the chapter is called 'Roheryn.' It'll be here in a couple of weeks [I hope!]
I spend about two hours yesterday evening finally kicking into shape an extra chapter for Aspects of Aragorn. It had been a bit of a pig and I'd been getting nowhere fast with it. So you can imagine my relief when I went to click 'save', fully intending to send it onto Cairistiona and Passolargo for their invaluable opinions.
Well I'm still not quite sure what happen, but the computer did not save it. It was nowhere to be found. Fortunately I have a good friend those knowledge of computers is inversely proportional to my own. But after an hour on the phone, he sadly pronounced my chapter well and truly lost for good. All 11 pages of it!
I didn't burst into tears. It was only a chapter, I told myself; no one died. It was by now after 10pm and I had been up since 4am. I was of half a mind to abandon the whole thing but instead, and I'm quite proud of myself for doing this, I turned around and started rewriting it, though looking at that first line with 11 more pages to go was very daunting. I kept going until 11.30pm at which point I was writing total gibberish. Thankfully, I've not in work this week, so today, I shelved all my plans for the day and kept at it all morning. Five hours later it is at least recognisable as the same chapter though there are still no end of frustrating bits that just don't read the same this time round.
The moral of this story: never ever work on anything without a copy of the original somewhere else. I certainly never want to do that again.
Oh the chapter is called 'Roheryn.' It'll be here in a couple of weeks [I hope!]
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Date: 2008-10-29 10:36 pm (UTC)Niriel's advice is a good one I always save the text everytime I finish a paragraph. When I'm writing long texts on the net I usually keep a back up copy on Word because there has been many a time I wanted to throw my computer out of the window after loosing huge texts I was emailing someone, or something similar.
But you're a brave one to start writing it all over again yesterday after such a frustrating experience and after such a tiring day.
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Date: 2008-10-30 11:49 am (UTC)Whether it was worth the bother of rewriting, I'll let you decide!
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Date: 2008-10-30 10:37 pm (UTC)