July WIP challenge: day 14

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Happy Thursday, WIP-ers! The weekend is near at hand... (yay!)


Today, I've:
--Written
--Edited
--Sent to beta
--Posted
--Planned/Plotted/Researched
--Something else I'll describe in comments

Today, I thought we might turn to the wisdom of

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Happy Thursday, WIP-ers! The weekend is near at hand... (yay!)

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Today, I've:
--Written
--Edited
--Sent to beta
--Posted
--Planned/Plotted/Researched
--Something else I'll describe in comments</cut>

Today, I thought we might turn to the wisdom of <a href="http://fyeahwriterleopard.tumblr.com/>the Writer Leopard:
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Anyone have any lost word horror stories they'd like to share?

Comments

[msmcknittington]

I have written pretty much nothing in the past couple days. I have thought about it a lot, though. Does that count? I know what one of the queens battle helmet looks like! Woo hoo?

I do have a horror story about lost words. I lost a major essay in college, because instead of closing the window I was pasting the parts I cut from the essay in, I closed the actual essay without saving. D: Fortunately, my professor let me hand it in the next day. Thank goodness!

P.S. You need to put a closing quote on the URL for the macro in your post.

[snowynight]

I have written 1000 words on my wip. It has the most sexual and emotional porn scenes I write.

I once lose a major essay in college too because the computer has problem before my saving it. (Weep)

[jagnikjen]

No writing yesterday again.I'm tired of writing right now and have been reading instead.

But I switch to a different original WIP this weekend and my challenge fic is off to the beta reader's for a second pair of eyes and a smack on the head if needed, giving my subconscious some time to process/decide what needs to happen next.

No major lost word horror stories--just last week I lost the whole first chapter of my challenge fic, but I have it in hard copy, so it's just a matter of typing it all back in. I lost a really wonderfully descriptive love scene last year that depressed me for days. I was never able to duplicate it and the fic was definitely the poorer for it. But really nothing else big that I can recall.