NaNoWriMo CRISIS

IT'S GONE!!!!!!!!!! MY NOVEL IS GONE!!!!!!

Okay, not the whole thing, but everything I wrote yesterday is gone because APPARENTLY I NEVER BOTHERED TO CLICK THE SAVE BUTTON.

WHY WOULD I NEED TO CLICK THE SAVE BUTTON?!?! MICROSOFT WORD IS SUPPOSED TO AUTOSAVE STUFF!

And it all happened because I just had to clip my fingernails while sitting at my desk...

Let me 'splain.

I was clipping my very long fingernails at my desk, in front of my open laptop. A piece of fingernail got stuck in my keyboard, under the Calculator button. The only way to get it out was to hold the button down while I fished it out with some tweezers. Naturally, this made about a million Calculator windows open up, and my laptop totally freaked out and locked up on me.

I couldn't get it to respond, so I shut it off with the power button.

Started it up- everything was working fine again.

So tonight, when I finally found the motivation to put in some time on my novel, I went and opened up the document. The usual little sidebar with all the autosaved stuff popped up on the left, and without thinking, I closed it.

A little box popped up, asking if I wanted to view these files again or if I was done with them.

I said to myself, "Meh, I've got all of this saved. I'm good." So I got rid of all them.

Only to find that my novel was missing around 1500 words.

Why?! WHY didn't I just leave the sidebar alone for a few more seconds?! WHYYYYY?!?!?!?!

AAAAAAAAGHHHH!!!!!!

THE ENTIRE CHUNK, THAT ENTIRE SESSION I PUT IN YESTERDAY... IS GONE.

Only 1500 words, you say. It could be worse.

Yeah, but I WAS ALREADY REALLY BEHIND!!! And also, I REALLY LIKED WHAT I WROTE! IT TOOK A LONG TIME!

NOW I HAVE TO WRITE IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:(

I am never going to finish this novel.

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