The sheer level of response on Twitter got me thinking, though–I’m clearly not the only one who’s lost work, or come close. You know the drill.Īnd then, just as I was trying to decide whether I could face the pain of revisiting all that work, salvation! Now, don’t laugh at me, please… I remembered which laptop I took on my trip. The dialogue would never be as witty, the description never as sparkling, the action never as immediate, the pacing never as perfect. I knew immediately–the way you always do when you lose work–that I could never, not ever, rewrite those chapters to be as good as they were. I must have forgotten to save it to the laptop, and only saved it to the USB. The laptop had the old version of the book on it. Left with only one option, I bolted for the laptop I had been using on my trip, trying to ignore the way my heart was thumping. But recently I was on the road, and had no internet access, so I didn’t email it to myself.
I’m usually very careful about backing up my work–I’m old-fashioned, so I save it to my laptop, a USB and email it to myself at the end of each session. From authors, editors, agents and publishers. This public service announcement brought to you by the last 45 minutes of total panic.įIFTY re-tweets. Writers, back up your work in more than one location. Would you like to see the most re-tweeted tweet I’ve ever sent out into the universe? I got a pretty good response to some of my copy edits humour, but this one blew it out of the water.
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