Oh, this was not a good thing to happen just before coming to the android homeworld.
Boston and Penny were blasting their way out of Eben Space Station when they had to fight off some Royal warships -- so lots of action and some pretty steady writing. I'm probably a couple paragraphs from finishing the chapter -- and it crashes! ARRGH!!!
I'm on an old computer of my sister's, which doesn't have MS Word, just WordPad, so no autosave. I basically lost 1,200 words. I still got 3,300 words written, though I actually wrote something like 4,500 words -- I just had to do 1,200 over again. I was so pissed. I'm going to have to smash up some computers in the next chapter.
Word count: 28,513.
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A good question. According to Baty's book, after the first draft is completed and I've tidied up the copy, I'll be allowed to share it to anyone wanting to see it. Provided that they sign a waiver stating they understand that the novel is total crap and and the three hours they waste reading it will be lost forever and not subject to refund.
And I prefer the Shinning moment from "The Simpsons" (no TV and no beer make George go crazy). Nice Kubrick tie-in, though.
Oh, man, sorry to hear about the crash and the lost words. At least you didn't lose everything you wrote, but I'm sure it's still very frustrating to lose so many words.
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