Willow's Tara
The Bewitched
Don't you hate this.
You are working on a story that could be potentially quite powerful and emotional. You are so into the story you barely noticed the world around you, not even the save button on your word document or the music blaring out of your computer.
You are so into the story, the characters capturing you, feeling like you are right there when Amelia has a breakdown or when Tanya screams in agony the thought of losing her entire family again so much pain to bare (Two characters from the story btw). You are so into it...
Then suddenly the word document for no reason at ALL freezes up, you realize in horror (And thinking where should I dump this crapola) that there might not be save. You wait hoping the freeze will goo away but nothing so you click exit and it crashes.
You rush back to the word document hoping just hoping that it managed to autorecover every single word of it. You noticed the auto recover timestamp is different to the time you were just writing it and you enter to discover two pages are missing!
Yep two pages of emotional and powerful scenes all gone, and with it so is your muse/inspiration. You try to recreate the scene but the inspiration is gone and you don't even remember what the characters were saying because of it and you rewrite but what they say you know is different compared to what they really said.
So has this ever happened to everyone? And you think someone who has played the game Oblivion lots of times and constantly saved because well Oblivion crashes for no reason at times, and then that habit seeks into other games and stories you write. But of course since you are so into the story and the only thing you are thinking what will happen next in the story that you forget to save (And auto recover can be a pain and a help combined)/.
You are working on a story that could be potentially quite powerful and emotional. You are so into the story you barely noticed the world around you, not even the save button on your word document or the music blaring out of your computer.
You are so into the story, the characters capturing you, feeling like you are right there when Amelia has a breakdown or when Tanya screams in agony the thought of losing her entire family again so much pain to bare (Two characters from the story btw). You are so into it...
Then suddenly the word document for no reason at ALL freezes up, you realize in horror (And thinking where should I dump this crapola) that there might not be save. You wait hoping the freeze will goo away but nothing so you click exit and it crashes.
You rush back to the word document hoping just hoping that it managed to autorecover every single word of it. You noticed the auto recover timestamp is different to the time you were just writing it and you enter to discover two pages are missing!
Yep two pages of emotional and powerful scenes all gone, and with it so is your muse/inspiration. You try to recreate the scene but the inspiration is gone and you don't even remember what the characters were saying because of it and you rewrite but what they say you know is different compared to what they really said.
So has this ever happened to everyone? And you think someone who has played the game Oblivion lots of times and constantly saved because well Oblivion crashes for no reason at times, and then that habit seeks into other games and stories you write. But of course since you are so into the story and the only thing you are thinking what will happen next in the story that you forget to save (And auto recover can be a pain and a help combined)/.