I Lost It...

Well darn. Guess you'll have to write it again! lol No, I know what it's like to lose a bunch of work like that. I worked on novels all through my childhood and I had a bunch of them on my old PC. That computer was the devil. It acted up a bunch, but one day it just up and CRASHED. The hard drive was completely gone, and nothing could be done to save anything on it. I lost SO MUCH writing! But it doesn't bother me much anymore because I've moved on to writing other things. And these days I back up my work to like ten different places.

I lost a couple of short stories, but they were lousy so I guess I'm just as glad - NOW...

:( That's not cool... With all the time you put into the book that is sad. I have lost a few of my favorite shirts before but I can at least go to the store and replace it by buying another one

I know how it feels to lose something so important and valuable, especially one that you have really put a lot of your effort and time into. I felt frustrated when I once lost my hard-earned cellphones,and it still remembering it still aches me. We learn some lessons from our mistakes which makes us grow stronger, and hopefully makes us better person. I am so sorry to hear of this. Maybe you could start writing another book, and this time maybe it will be something far better. Good luck on your endeavors.

Manuscripts can (and should) be re-written. I wrote thousands of pages of stories in high school, and I threw out many of them. You wrote the story once, you can always re-write it. Since you have had more life experience, the new version will likely be a lot better than the original.

Why did you write it by hand? why not the computer, easier storage. I lost my entire writing portfolio, with lots and lots of stories, ideas, poems, tons of stuff. I also lost my sketchbook, that had all my best drawings in it, and the most important thing I lost was a photo album with pictures of my son in it. I can always rewrite versions of the stories i lost, and redraw pictures I drew, but I can't get most those pictures back.

Not really lost. My careless sister threw it away.

Yes...I have a ring..it was my father's wedding ring. It was in the same place for years and one day I went to look for it to give to my son and it was missing...I have never found it back....so sad.

Yeah, it's one of those don't-know-what-you-got-'til-it's-gone things. But if you're anything like me or the other writers I know, you wouldn't have liked that book too much had you kept it! lol You'd be wanting to rip it up, using the original as a draft and deciding to rewrite it. So it might be a blessing! Since I work 8 to 10 hours a day writing, I usually don't have time for a full-on novel, but I do write songs and short stories and blog articles for a hobby. Well, my PC crashed one day about two years ago, and in a panic I just said "PLUCK IT" and threw in the Windows 7 CD to reinstall, not realizing I had deleted over 100 Word files of work -- including a song I wrote that I was very proud of. Long story short, I remembered the chorus to this song, by and large, and just rewrote it (yeah, I realize a song is a lot easier to rewrite than 1,000 pages lol). I entered it into a contest and ended up winning! I highly doubt the original would have done well at all. So it was a blessing. It's like in a week when I read this post again. I'll notice typos or structural errors or things I want to change or add. But it'll be too late. So maybe, just maybe, you can turn this in your favor. You can start writing (save it off-site via a USB flash drive -- that's what I do now) and end up with a final product that's much better. If I can do it and win a contest, you can do it and make the Times' list or something!

I have lost something also years ago. Nothing like a book that I wrote. Maybe there is a way for you to go back to the old house and look there. It might be worth a shot. My thing was, well let me start this way. I had bought a Lincoln MarkVI back in 1983. That was my favorite car of all time, it still is and wish I still had it. But anyway, before I had bought the car, I had the brochure for that car. I had it in my mothers house in one of her hutch drawers. It sat there for many years. One day when I took the apartment upstairs, I looked all over the entire house and could not find that brochure. I asked my mother where it went and she told me that she cleaned out the drawers not long ago and thew it away. I was angry for a while over that. To this day I still wish I had that brochure. It was special to me.

Yeah I once lost a watch that my mum and dad got me.. was so sad. Although the more I think about it I am nearly convinced that an ex friend stole it from my house.

Sometimes I think I lost something meanwhile I put it in a safe spot and forget. Could you call your old place and ask them?. I know I usually set my important items in a spot, and forget where I put it, rip the place apart, and found it. I remember when I moved back from college, I had left some clothes, notes in my room the landlord mailed them to me which was really nice but they werent that important. I do hope you find it, its a lot of memories for you.

Awww, I could almost feel you. I'm sorry for your loss. The same thing almost happened to me once, because I happened to move to and fro from our home province and in to the city. I thought I lost one of the drafts of one story I was revising. Fortunately, I have only misplaced it and I have found it later on. It was relieving, although I must say that I had cursed the hell out of anything when I initially thought that I lost it. Though this had almost happened to me, I couldn't still imagine how could I go when I would actually experience it. It's quite unthinkable for me.

I also experience this. Seriously it is so heart breaking. My first story that I wrote is written on my PE notebook when I was on High School and now that notebook is nowhere to find. T.T But now I prefer to write on computer and make back ups to prevent losing my works.