I’ve been churning out words fairly consistently for the last few days. Thursday was a bit of a flop because of plans, but I had been planning on getting back on track – and even getting a little bit ahead in order to get ready for being back at work for a few days next week.

I’d gotten an extra few hundred words done last night before bed, and although this morning had started out slow, I was almost 1 k words into my word count for the day. I’d gotten past a particularly descriptive part of the story, and was anxious to move into more plot – when my lappy started to give me problems. It’s been great the last few weeks since I upgraded my set up, I never expected it to simply turn itself off for no reason in the middle of a workday.

Normally I’m super good about saving my work – I’m almost obsessive about it, but for some reason, I’ve been less concerned about it the last few days. Call it passivity born from simply not having computer problems for so long, or forgetfulness – either applies, and they both come down to a loss of words that is no one’s fault but my own.

Truly – 1 k words isn’t much to suck back and re-do. I’m lucky that I had been working on the part I’d lost so recently, that it’s still relatively fresh in my mind. I know it’s not going to come out exactly the same as I had written it the first time, but the major points will still get across, and at the end of the day I’ve re-learned a valuable lesson: Save, save, save.

If you’ve written a sentence, and need to walk away for any reason: Save.

Interrupted by anything, Phone, email, texts: Save.

I’m glad that this happened so soon in the month before I have more done, but honestly I’m hoping it won’t happen again either. Saving.