Disaster Strikes

Okay, time to vent for a few minutes. So, imagine you spend a dozen hours or two crafting the next chapter to a story you really care about. Even if not very many people read it, you’re still super passionate. Then, disaster strikes. Your computer decides screw you and it corrupts the files. You spend another five hours and your not considerable talent with computers to try and recover the files. In the end, you’re left with malformed crap and all the text is gone beyond recovery, an entire chapter’s worth.

You think. “Worse things have happened, I’ll write it better the second time.”. You spend hours recreating what you had, not sure if it’s anything close to the text you had the first time. You do your best, and end up finishing the chapter on time to get to the editors. All’s well that ends well.

You go to output the file. It’s corrupt again. Another three hours or so retracing your steps from the first time this happened, all to no avail. All the backups you took after you got burned earlier in the week have mysterious vanished.

This is what happened to the last in-story chapter for MLA: Apogee. I now have nothing to give the editors, and have lost all desire to recreate the text a THIRD time.

Not sure what to do now. Maybe write different scenes about different characters, though the plot points would go unresolved. Upon further work, I managed to save the first scene of the chapter, though the other two were corrupt beyond recovery. I’ve done my best, everypony. I just don’t know what to do now.

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