I'm sure there will be loads of these, but I just had a little heart stopper. Thought my lap top had been plugged in all this time but just got a message telling me there was only 10% battery life left - found the disconnected cord, crisis averted. Glad I wasn't in the loo when the message came up.
Anyone else got a Nano disaster they narrowly averted?
Other than disappearing or rapidly reproducing plot bunnies of course!
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Nov 1, 2009 - 04 10
Phew! Glad you didn't lose all your work.
Just then, for a millionth of a billionth of a blink of an eye, I thought my computer had frozen meaning I would have lost about 250 words. It's not a lot of words in the scheme of things but I was a roll and I hate rewriting work that I've lost on the computer. I swear my heart stopped beating. Then I realised that my document was just autosaving, and it looked like it had frozen because I have a super slow computer. Another Nano "disaster" narrowly averted!
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Nov 1, 2009 - 04 23
I thought I'd run out of Coke but there was another can in the chilly bag.
Also, while I was sitting outside at the write-in, I stopped a UFO from landing on Scarlett's house, only nobody was looking. But I assure you it would have been a disaster if I hadn't intervened.
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Nov 1, 2009 - 04 23
It's that millionth of a billionth that gets you isn't it? I mean if my computer had gone flat I'm sure it would have recovered, but how many of those hard fought little words would I have lost.
Glad we both narrowly averted our 'disaster'!
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Nov 1, 2009 - 05 51
Lauren, there were wombats on that UFO, weren't there.
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Nov 1, 2009 - 16 17
Reptilian humanoid wombats.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
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Nov 4, 2009 - 19 28
I woke up from sleeping in this morning after deciding to take a sickie. And then found I am actually sick today and thought I was going to be too lazy today to write anything and it was going to go all downhill from here
....but then I drank a cup of coffee that was uber strong and suddenly everything is fine and I'm still charging ahead.
----------NaNoWriMo '09: Barbarism - "...society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism..."
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Nov 5, 2009 - 05 34
today i got masiively depressed and i almost thaught i had deleted pucks scene in blue. i almost cryed then i realised it was set up in a different format. pucks scene came back. and then my novel turned dark again > _>
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Nov 7, 2009 - 14 30
I woke up this morning to find that my USB (which contained the only updated version of my novel) was broken. The top end of it was at a right angle with the rest of it so it pretty much was a goner from the moment I saw it.
----------The only other copy of the story was from Day 1, so I was pretty much in shock for about an hour until my Dad did some handy little fiddling work on it and we saved everything off the USB and onto my computer.
I can only imagine how far behind I would be if we didn't revive it though . . . and how much rewriting I would have to do.
Nano '09 - Angels Can Fly