Three minutes ago, I just managed to — from some freak accident — delete a piece of fiction I’ve been working on for months. For months, I’ve tweaked it. Literally, sentence by sentence, word by word, and comma by comma. Some days, I’d spend a good hour just staring at a single phrase, making it perfect.
And now it’s all gone.
I’m heartbroken. Seriously.
I have to start over, I know. But how, I have no idea.
Dave says,
you useless cunt!
(sorry, i saw that comment on one of your facebook pictures and couldn’t stop laughing)
seriously.. that sucks, if it’s what I think it was… damnit fil! how could you not have backed it up somewhere??
Jonathan Weatherhead says,
All is not lost yet…
http://www.pandorarecovery.com/
Jonathan Weatherhead says,
Unless you really pwnd yourself bad by deleting the text in a text editor, saving and then closing.
hot coffee girl says,
What Jonathan said. The first time.
Jonathan Weatherhead says,
Hey Hot Coffee Girl! Haven’t seen you around for some time (I don’t think…) Yeah PC World was really gushing about Pandora. I wish I had it a few years back when windows ate some of my photo albums. Sadly, recovery is impossible; I’ve maxed that drive out several times
hot coffee girl says,
I’ve been lurking. And how!
I wish there was a pandora for real-life stuff.
Phil says,
Jon: Unless you really pwnd yourself bad by deleting the text in a text editor, saving and then closing.
That’s the short of it, Jon. I basically wrote it in my blog’s online editor. While editing yesterday, I realized that I had — at some time, deleted a great deal of the work and not realizing it, had auto-saved over. I was left with 1/5 of what I had. No way to recover that shit.
Kelly: I wish there was a pandora for real-life stuff.
What? This coming from the girl who was a winner of the lost-shit lottery?
Dan says,
Sometimes when an e-mail I’m writing unexpectedly crashes. I curse for a few moments. Then, I immediately start it up again and rewrite it from memory.
Perhaps you could try to sketch the basics out and then recreate the actual meat and potatoes of it all.
Never give up on good ideas.