This is apparently just a bad week. Last night, the hard drive with my nearly finished next book along with a few other works in process went belly up. At first I thought the computer itself was toast. It would never come out of POST. This morning, I just left it on and eventually it did come up. Without that one drive. I'm hoping the physical disc is undamaged and it's just the circuitry that has failed. I'll have to look at data recovery options.
A hard drive may sound like a silly thing to cry about, but there's a lot of work on that disc.
Melanie
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I totally understand
I've been there, done that, and shed the tears. It may seem like a silly thing to cry about from the outside looking in but losing the works you're working on that aren't saved elsewhere because they're not published is heart-rending. You've put a lot of time, energy and creativity into all of that and the fear that it might be gone and you'll have to start over is hard. I just wanted to lay down and cry. Don't feel bad for feeling that way, it's like losing a part of yourself, and when you finish having a good cry you just have to pick yourself up and look at the practical stuff like recovery options and trying to jot down whatever important story details are still in your head just in case.
I hope that you're able to recover everything Melanie, and not just because I enjoy your stories.
*big hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3