I'm so pissed off I could SCREAM right now!

Blacklight · 02-10-08, 09:02 PM

Back in the mid 80's, I had written a novel for my Creative Writing class and of course being a stuped teen, didn't back the sucker up and the hard drive blew. I still remember that it was 374 pages.

I also lost a good 150+ pages of poetry and song lyrics.

I ended up having to rewrite the whole novel from scratch again (Lucky I had a binder with the bible for the story at the time). I don't know whatever happened to that book. I submitted it and then let it drop into obscurity on floppy disks. The floppies HAVE to be gone by now. I STILL do have the bible for the book. I should rewrite it.

Lesson learned. Back it up.. back it up often... and back it up onto multiple types of media.

02-10-08, 09:02 PM	#16
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Back in the mid 80's, I had written a novel for my Creative Writing class and of course being a stuped teen, didn't back the sucker up and the hard drive blew. I still remember that it was 374 pages. I also lost a good 150+ pages of poetry and song lyrics. I ended up having to rewrite the whole novel from scratch again (Lucky I had a binder with the bible for the story at the time). I don't know whatever happened to that book. I submitted it and then let it drop into obscurity on floppy disks. The floppies HAVE to be gone by now. I STILL do have the bible for the book. I should rewrite it. Lesson learned. Back it up.. back it up often... and back it up onto multiple types of media. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"