Don't Forget To Save!

I'm going to start to get this blog moving again, although I don't know if I can maintain the three days a week pace I had.  Life is crazy, and although I love writing, I have to eat and put a roof over my family's head.  If y'all would buy more of my books, then that wouldn't be an issue and I could write full time.  😉

I learned a hard lesson yesterday, one I thought I'd learned previously.  Unfortunately, pain is a great teacher, and maybe this one will be painful enough for me to remember this time.

As mentioned before, I've started back up on my sci-fi/fantasy mashup novel, and it's getting exciting.  The spacefarers from Earth are starting to encounter the fantasy creatures of the new world(Expandarit to our Earth people, Progenitos to those already living there), and there has even been a small battle!

Or rather...there once was a small battle.

We had an ice storm here in Tennessee recently, and it cut my power.  I'd been keeping my new novel open on my computer so I could write on it when I got a small break, but I lost the document when the power got cut.  Now I know what you're all saying - Hey, don't you know you can recover the document?  I sure do...when it had enough there.  However, although the battle had a whole new page, the recovery document didn't get that part as it was really new and not very long(like I said, about a page).  So now I get to go back and rewrite that scene.

It's not all bad - I remember most of it, and it'll likely only contain a few variances, but I hate rewriting stuff I've already done(one of the reasons I get so emotional when forced to rewrite whole sections that no longer work).  Still, it reminded me to save at the end of each page and at the end of the day rather than just leaving it open.  You'd think I'd have gotten that down by now.