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I just spent four hours writing a very nice essay here on Terrence Malick's The New World, perfect moments in film, and MTV's 25th anniversary.
My browser crashed and I lost all but the first half-hour of work, just as I finished and was proofreading.
I didn't save it elsewhere because I wasn't expecting to write something that long, formatting gets screwy if I transfer text from Word to LiveJournal, and Live Journal saves drafts every few minutes, so I thought I'd be safe. For some reason, it didn't save all of what I wrote.
If anyone has any ideas about possible ways of recovering it, let me know. I think it's gone, but I'd like to try to get back an essay that was a surprise to me and that I was happy with, and which I don't think I can replicate with the same energy and inspiration, if there's any way.
Maybe I'll finish it again someday, but now I have to get back in the mood to write again as I'm supposed to have something up here tomorrow as part of Girish's Avant-Garde Blog-a-Rama.
I'm really not in the mood to try and write more now.
Damn.
My browser crashed and I lost all but the first half-hour of work, just as I finished and was proofreading.
I didn't save it elsewhere because I wasn't expecting to write something that long, formatting gets screwy if I transfer text from Word to LiveJournal, and Live Journal saves drafts every few minutes, so I thought I'd be safe. For some reason, it didn't save all of what I wrote.
If anyone has any ideas about possible ways of recovering it, let me know. I think it's gone, but I'd like to try to get back an essay that was a surprise to me and that I was happy with, and which I don't think I can replicate with the same energy and inspiration, if there's any way.
Maybe I'll finish it again someday, but now I have to get back in the mood to write again as I'm supposed to have something up here tomorrow as part of Girish's Avant-Garde Blog-a-Rama.
I'm really not in the mood to try and write more now.
Damn.
Re: Damn
Date: 2006-08-02 02:45 pm (UTC)From:Despite the fact that I had perfectly good reasons for thinking it wouldn't happen, and my writing was being saved as I went along, the worst thing is that I just feel like such an idiot, as I'm the kind of guy who ALWAYS saves everything CONSTANTLY -- I remember writing on early home PCs where that was a necessity, so I usually hit Ctrl-S by habit every time I time a period.
I'll rewrite it in the next few days, what the heck.