Heartache

The interactive aspect of my blog begins tomorrow, but I thought I’d share a little true life short story.

A terrible thing befell me today, something I imagine a lot of you have possibly dealt with. Today I lost 25,000 words of my book. And my heart is broken.

It was such a stupid mistake. I was copying the file to Dropbox so that, laughably, I would have a backup safe from any computer problems. Rather than copying the file I moved it, when I moved it back the Dropbox file was an old backup.
It’s all gone.

My intention is to write a bullet point breakdown of what I remember of the book and more or less where things were (the more recent work will be easier to do) and then work from that to rewrite it. I think it’s going to be painful as what I want to do is rewrite it exactly how it was, but what I need to do is use the blueprint of what I remember to find it again. I figure it’s all in my head, I’ve just got to unlock it again.

The short story part of this blog will be a good diversion.

Remember, always make backups. But do it properly so that in doing so it doesn’t RUIN EVERYTHING.

– Andrew