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Carter-Orange:
I'm glad you've all got the writing bug :)

I've had a few ideas in my head for stories, but at the moment I've just put a few ideas down in a word doc and will have a look when I've finished the story I'm currently writing.  I've not been able to write a thing for a couple of weeks because my laptop died and took all my work along with it!  But I've bought a new laptop now and have managed to recover my stuff from the old crappy one, so hopefully I can get some more done in the next couple of days.

RokofAges75:
Oh no!  Sorry about your computer.  Glad you were able to recover everything, and yay for a new laptop!  I miss having a laptop, but my old one got to be so unreliable, I swore I'd never buy another one LOL.  It completely crashed on me once, and I lost EVERYTHING.  Not fun!

Pengi:

--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 09, 2010, 06:41:46 AM ---It completely crashed on me once, and I lost EVERYTHING.  Not fun!

--- End quote ---
That happened to me once with a desktop PC just before I'd finished an original story that was somewhere between 400 and 600 pages...and the PC got a virus and it was eating the hard drive like it was a sandwich - just chomp chomp chomp... and I hadn't updated my back up of it in something like 150 pages, and I was freaking out that I was going to lose it all... So my mom sat at my computer, which I had to move into the dining room and hook up, and I sat at hers across the room, and she read the pages while I typed them on her PC to update my back up drive. It took literally all night, but my mom was a trooper and we got the whole thing done... I lost a lot of other stuff - music, pictures, files, like five or six website layouts that I loved (and a ton I didn't care about), stories, etc - but we saved that story, which would've been -by far- the biggest loss, because I'm one of those people that if I lose something, I can't rewrite it. It comes out forced the second time (which is why I can't outline, lol).

RokofAges75:
I'm the same way; I HATE having to rewrite!  It just kills my inspiration.

I guess that's another reason to post as you write, so that if something like that were to happen, at least you've got most of your story backed up online.

Carter-Orange:
Oh god, that sounds like an absolute nightmare!!

I'm glad I'd saved all my stuff quite recently, so I didn't lose much and that I was able to recover it.  I've bought an external hard drive now too. 

Posting as you go is a very good idea for that reason :)

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