Totally useless rage!

You were writing in digital diary or not ???

This happened to me - only, in my case, it was due to a computer crash. I had been writing my first novel and was plugging right along during a particularly long work day. I had added 50 pages, making it 240 pages long and did a considerable amount of editing, rewriting and organizing. I never backed the material up on disk and - poof - it zapped away when my computer kicked the bucket. Needless to say, that novel remains unfinished. That happened in 1998 and I haven't been able to revisit the material since experiencing that trauma!! (duh) I haven't made the mistake since.

Oh, yes, I have been there, done that. It's happened to me more than a few times on Helium, usually when I used the spell check feature, so I stopped with that. I've also had it happen to me many times on Associated Content. You would think that I would learn to write on Word or Wordpad, but I like writing into the program better. So, I suffer. I have been where you are! Totally.

It has happened too many times to count. I finally learned my lesson and make sure that I save everything now. I mostly write for AC, and type it all up in word.

yep sometimes i have to write articels 2 times because my net crashes and wheal it all disapers its kind of anoying writing the same thing dwon agan thats why the second one is shorter and not as weall writen as the first one and you may lose some great thoughts in the proces

wow. A whole article? That sucks! I've lost 3 or 4 paragraph discussion posts and been pretty frustrated. I imagine I'd be extremely frustrated if I lost an entire article. Just from what's happened to me with discussions, I can sympathize. Sometimes I pour my heart into these discussion (sort of) and if I lose it, it's like all the passion has already flowed out of me and it's lost forever. I can't bring myself to attempt to retype it. When that happens, I just try to tell myself that it wasn't meant to be. I tell myself that it was a "sign" that it wasn't something that I needed to post. Hey...it works for me! lol From now on...save after each paragraph? Of course, I'm great at giving advice sometimes, but I don't always follow my own advice. Take care. Good luck with your future articles.