The Trouble With Computers and Not Backing up Files

Well, thanks to mum's computer suddenly committing suicide on us, (though frankly I suspect attempted murder as there is no sign of a note) we have lost almost everything. I should say at this point that our computer is still alive. It attempted to die. The paramedics got to it in time to save it's life, but it suffered partial amnesia. It can't remember everything that was on it, and it is presumed lost forever.

A little bit was backed up, though not most of the newer stuff. However, thanks to my semi smart thinking a few months back I still have all of my writing. Thank you Wattpad! For once you turned out to be useful and not a total waste of time like I think you have been.

But, while I have all my writing saved on Wattpad the formatted files for 'The Story of Silence' are lost. That means if I want to update the book I'm going to have to take it from Wattpad and re-format it. Unless of course I can somehow get it off Createspace. As for the formatted files for my latest book 'Of Lights and Shadows', I still have it but it's not the latest edit. I also don't have the original copies of either of them. Which is a very big shame, they were horribly written and a lot of what was in them was taken out in the last edit, but they were the original so they were important in a sentimental kind of way. Also all the parts which I cut from the books I could have used for other books and was planning to, so that's a shame as well. Thankfully, I'm young and so I remember what the cut scenes were about. I just have to re-write, which I hate. Though maybe if I re-write them I'll be able to get them exactly as I wanted them to be in the first place.

While I still have all my writing works, everyone else lost things of their own. We had hundreds of pictures of ourselves which are sadly gone. The only copies of some of those pictures are on other families profiles on Facebook, and on their own computers at home. This does mean that we will be able to get some of them back, but we'll still be missing heaps.

I made a few videos, those have been wiped. They were horrible so they don't matter too much. Other videos we made with friends were on the computer, and unless my sister never bothered to clear them off her camera we may have lost a few days worth of filming. I can't remember, but I'm hoping that one of our friends has copies. I think she might have.

In a few days, or the next time mum goes on the computer, we shall find out exactly how much we still have.

Sorry for the delay!

Once upon a time I said I would publish Of Lights and Shadows in June. If you've seen your calender recently you will see that it is July. If you're been waiting for the book to come out, I am very sorry to say that it is not yet ready. I took longer editing it than I thought I would because the book is almost double the length of The Story of Silence and I started editing it later than planned because I didn't finish the book until I think it was the beginning of March. I have a whole bunch of excuses for being late in publishing but I won't go through them all.

In news with how the book is going, a grammar edit is being made of it at the moment. After that is complete I will go through it again and correct any mistakes to the story and characters that I missed, then hopefully I will be able to find a couple of people to read it and let me know what they think. If they find mistakes or problems I will edit those and then it should be all ready for publication. So we are looking at either the end of this month, or the end of next month.