And then my heart stopped.
So I keep the most current draft of whatever I'm currently working on stored on a thumb drive, along with the applicable continuity guides. Last week, the most current draft file of Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues decided to become unreadable to anyone not on my laptop -- something I was able to get around by opening the file, copying its contents, and dropping them into a clean file. I have since deleted the original file and worked exclusively from the new one, and everything's been fine.
Only not. Because now I'm having the same issue with a different file. A bigger file. A more worrisome file.
The Toby continuity guide.
This thing is a) over three hundred pages long, and b) one of the only files I don't have some form of off-site backup for, since I'm not exactly going to go around emailing all the deepest, darkest secrets of my series to people. But if the open/copy/replace doesn't work this time, I'm going to freak out, because part of why I write all this stuff down is so I won't forget what I said the middle name of Dave's cousin who only gets mentioned once in book two is supposed to be.
Hello, Mercury in retrograde. I was wondering when you were going to start beating on me...
Only not. Because now I'm having the same issue with a different file. A bigger file. A more worrisome file.
The Toby continuity guide.
This thing is a) over three hundred pages long, and b) one of the only files I don't have some form of off-site backup for, since I'm not exactly going to go around emailing all the deepest, darkest secrets of my series to people. But if the open/copy/replace doesn't work this time, I'm going to freak out, because part of why I write all this stuff down is so I won't forget what I said the middle name of Dave's cousin who only gets mentioned once in book two is supposed to be.
Hello, Mercury in retrograde. I was wondering when you were going to start beating on me...