For you Lilly I would say, that to give up now would be to admit defeat. Yes you lost a precious part of your story. The one that helped you forge where you wanted the story to go. An outline of what you wanted to say.

And as a novice in a digital world of where many no longer see a need to write on paper or have even done so given how schools require digital copies and not paper one. To even consider to print out such a thing where one thinks it old fashion. You need to not give in, but to pick yourself up and learn from it. To look over your story and think about where you had decided you wanted the story to go and jog ones memory.

You can see this in not wanting to continue this and in so doing leave many who have read what you have placed before them wondering. You are not the first, middle or last to have lost a part of ones manuscript. Even the pro's have done so only to find it within themselves to carry on the story as how they could best envision it and to find that it hadn't mattered for they saw ways on how to improve upon what they had once thought.

So don't give in to despair. Pick it up and refocus your efforts, redouble your desire on wanting to entertain us with what you have to give us.

I know from personal experience on what I had lost for I, myself and done it not once, or twice but many times. I have learned from it by not only backing it up on thumbdrives but to take the measure of e-mailing it to myself thus having a place in the event such things happen.

So don't berate yourself for you could succumb to the gremlin of wanting to quit. Get back on the keys, type what you can remember and give your readers the story from ones creative mind.