rallamajoop

I've spent a whole lot of the last two weeks hopelessly stuck on the beginning of a fic I've had sitting around unfinished since last year sometime. Yesterday, I finally cracked it - got an opening written out that I was happy with, made a bunch of extra edits to the rest of the fic and basically got it finished but for the minorest of finishing touches.

Today I tried opening the file - which I haven't backed up anywhere other than my USB drive since mid last month - to find it was corrupted. Suddenly all it contains is a badly formatted version of a list of all the files on the drive. I can only guess that means that something went wrong when I disconnected the drive from the last computer I used it on and some kind of file system information got saved over the last open document. I'm also guessing that means the file is now completely unrecoverable, and the best option I've got left is to try to reproduce as much of the new material I wrote yesterday from memory into my two-week-old version of the story.

I almost printed out a copy to take to PenCafe to work on, but I just had to go and decide it wasn't worth wasting the paper.

And just when my week was starting to look up again. >_<