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[owlectomy]

They weren't able to recover any of my data.

The good news is, they are going to refund the money I put down for data recovery, so (even if I probably shouldn't) I'm going to consider that as Money Already Spent and use it for a new computer. And a big external hard drive to set up for automated backups.

The bad news is, well, everything else.

For the writing, I'm going to go forward and finish the book as if the words I lost were behind me already, and go back for them when I'm done, because I know that I cannot handle rewriting them now. I guess I should go back to my earlier backup and sketch out the scenes that happened in the bits I lost, while I still remember them. And let's just say I'm going to hit my deadline because it's kind of possible.

Comments

[daedala]

I am so sorry. :(

[sasha_feather]

Ah, I'm so sorry.

[littlebutfierce]

Oh no. I'm so sorry.

[coffeeandink]

Oh, no. I'm so sorry. :(

[deborah]

Ugh. I admit I wasn't even admitting to myself that was a possibility. Because it's just, so... yeah.

Sounds like you have the right attitude, though. (And the right idea about the backup hard drive!)

[deborah]

And if it's not obvious, I'm so sorry.

[starlady]

Ah, I've been there, and it's horrible. My profound sympathies.

[raanve]

Oh, bummer. :( I'm sorry.

[antarcticlust]

Oh, no! I'm so, so sorry.

[bnharrison.livejournal.com]

oh my god. i'm so, so sorry. but i think your plan is solid. treat the words you have to reconstruct as a revision, not to be worried about until it's all done.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Oh, Emily. I have no words. I think what you're doing is absolutely the right thing.