Do every novel author react to the accident where he deleted his draft chapter with exact emotion like he launched the nuke to his motherland?

[Firestorm22345]

I wonder do every author react like that. I, a new author, like silence but always have questions to ask like Young Einstein. So basically, I just want to know. Me and other author who published "Boys Gang" novel had the same reaction to that accident. And don't mind me russian authors that I said "Like he lauched nuke to their motherland". It's just my joke, no hate for it. Now back to main question, I had that emotion when I deleted my draft yesterday. I tried to find recovery software but none of them are useful. Do anyone happned like me?

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

I accidentally erased two-years' worth of manuscripts and drawings because of a wrong disk formatting.

I wanna die back then, but yeah, the feeling will pass. Just learn and think of ways to prevent similar incident in the future.

 

[Tetrahedron]

worse, it's no longer accidentally deleted.

My hard drive is bricked, and I lost all motivation on writing. Took me two years to get back up

 

[Firestorm22345]

I accidentally erased two-years' worth of manuscripts and drawings because of a wrong disk formatting.

I wanna die back then, but yeah, the feeling will pass. Just learn and think of ways to prevent similar incident in the future.

That's too bad and sorry for you. If I were you, I would lose myself

worse, it's no longer accidentally deleted.

My hard drive is bricked, and I lost all motivation on writing. Took me two years to get back up

Look like you need yoga lessons to have motivations on writing.

 

[empalgepuk]

I've never lost my draft. Thankfully, plain text documents are easy to backup.

But I have lost a few drawings in the past due to SSD failure. If the WIPs are lost, I won't bother redoing them again. Hopefully nothing like this happens to my manuscripts.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

That's too bad and sorry for you. If I were you, I would lose myself

Nah, I've suffered enough to develop mental fortitude.

As for that story, you can check it on the main site. I eventually finished that with 400+ chapters, and 1.2 million words, as well as my drawings are hand-drawn, so I just re-scanned and screentoned those again.

 

[Jerynboe]

As a pantser I never have more than one arc of any of my stories in only one place at a time because I post once it’s ready.

Ye gods it still hurts when one week’s worth of work gets deleted. Just not as badly.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

All I have to say about this is thank goodness for autosaves and document recovery. *pets Microsoft Word happily* ?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I've lost stuff to hard drive crashes. Closest I've come to nuking a chapter, though, was when working with a group-edited file and getting three versions mixed up, merging two and losing the one with the most changes in the process.

 

[FRWriter]

I download my Google Drive every 2 weeks, so at worst, I lose 10-20 chapters. Still, I can always copy & paste them from my Patreon, so I'm pretty much 100% secure.

I would advise backing up your stuff. If you use Google Drive, it might be smart to give backup access to a second account, so even if you lose the first, you can still view your chapters.