She worked with them and eventually got most of her work restored, but it took several days.Įveryone needs a backup system and strategy-especially writers. The backup service had saved a few versions of her corrupted file … but not far enough back to get her to an uncorrupted version. She used one of those online backup services, so she should’ve been covered. Something similar recently happened to a friend of mine. (This was back in the days of diskettes and zip drives.) But I had skipped my backup routine for two or three days before the hard drive failure, so while I hadn’t lost the whole book, I had lost several days of writing. I prayed, begged, and tried bribing my computer guru but my book was gone.īut I’m not totally clueless. Grrrr.īut this time, it wasn’t my son’s nefarious schemes. After I issued every threat I could think of, he admitted to his little trick and put my computer back to the way it was. I think I found other work to do that day until my son got home from school and asked, a mischievous smile on his face, “How’d work go?” He never asked me that, so I knew I’d been had. I repeated the startup, and the same thing happened. And one day when I fired up my computer for a full day of writing, the startup screen appeared and then disappeared. Even when he was in grade school, he was better with computers than I was. My work-in-progress was about sixty percent complete when my computer screen went blank.Īt first, I blamed it on my son. Years ago, I was writing on deadline (when am I not?).
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