I had typed about two thousand words today. I hit save every fifteen minutes. Then my dog wanted to go outside. I hit save and just as I did the computer popped off. I lost all the words from last night and today’s words. I am trying to catch up now so I’ll not say much here. It is so disappointing when computer crashes lose everything. I went through every file in dropbox and Onedrive to find anything to save me. But now it is a mishmash of things I have touched so I can’t find the right one. I’ll try to rename the one I am working on right now as it is the closest to what I had done.
Sorry for complaining. I’ll get back on track because the story is pushing me to tell it. I just need to get as much done tonight and tomorrow to get back to where I left off.
Darswords 
Have you ever tried Word Counter? It has an auto save feature that works great.
Is that part of Word?
No, an app you can find in Google. Just our word counter in the address box and take the first choice
I’ll look that up when I finish today’s words.
https://wordcounter.net/
Thanks for sharing this. Not the way I like to write. I like working in the chapter and scene. Though I suppose I could just copy and paste it to where it should be.
I think there are different versions, for blogs and for books, etc.
Thanks for this reminder. I followed the link on my phone but I wanted to remember to look it up on my laptop. I think when I get to those desperate times about a week from now when I don’t know what to write hitting this kind of system helps. Just pour out the words and sort them later. I have had many NaNos that that was my sole way to get through, those, and tons of virtual write-ins.
Sounds like you need a better system, you get let down far too often!
Just the flukes of this year, I think. I am thinking of getting Scrivener up and running or working more in WriteItNow. I like yWriter but it is more unstable for me, even as it offers ways to write on tablets or phones to save. I may be stuck with just laptop. Meanwhile, I am doing prewriting on paper so I know where I’m going.
Good idea, I always start with paper!
It’s according to how my hands feel. I love writing cursive or drawing but arthritis can stop all that. I had to give up crochet a couple years ago. I have to vary projects to stay flexible to knit. With hand writing I alternate print-scrawl and cursive. But I type so much faster (no, still too slow) so I often find I’ve left the journaling and and typing story. But whatever gets the story going! Editing cleans up word vomit.
Whatever gets us there!
ABSOLUTELY!
Oh no! I’m so sorry that happened and I’m praying it was just a glitch and you are back in business today!
I gave up searching for what I wrote. It takes time to go down that rabbit hole. Instead I rewrote from notes I scribbled pretyping. That was something missing in previous projects. Now I know the story/characters before I set them to work. 🤗 Frustration? No problem. FruNoWriMo!
I am glad you took notes and you were able to reconstruct the whole thing! I miss it-being involved-but I have absolutely no time this year. 😞
😢 I’m sorry you aren’t able to join the fun.
Maybe next year!
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I understand your frustration having lost valuable work before. Do you create outlines? This could be helpful in recreating your work. I‘m a nut when it comes to saving now and save just about every minute or two. Thank you for sharing. 😀
Yep I have an outline. And I am redundant in saving and saved just before the computer crashed. But something went wrong and error messages abound for anything listed for the day and time. I knew where the story was going and I loved the newest characters. But my rewrites are never as good as what I felt about what disappeared. Maybe when I get back to the editing some will reappear in my head. I’m not worried about my word count. Just missing inspiration. The rewrites seem dull.
I‘m sending you good thoughts, encouragement, and inspiration. Keep going no matter what.
Thank you! I will!😊
What a nightmare, I hope you can sort it all out 💜
I’m working on it! 😏
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