Working on my book!

Oct. 8, 2020 (Chapter 22 My Writing in my book)

The other day I posted on social media that I was actively working on my book. It was either that day or the next day that everything almost fell apart on me! I was on my computer, editing and organizing the posts by chapters. Something happened to my blog document on my computer. Suddenly a document that held over eight hundred blog entries over fifteen years was BLANK! As I looked at the screen, I nearly cried! I did my best to stay calm rather than panic. I tried to retrieve the text but it was just not working. I thought about whether I had the document saved anywhere else. I thought about my online blog and that would have worked but it probably would have taken a long time to get the information from there.

Then I remembered that it was saved on my other computer. I copied the document onto a flash drive and I transferred it to the laptop that I was using. This will work but it will add a little more work for me, since there had been lots of editing done after the original document. Luckily, I had printed all of the blog entries and they are sorted into the chapters of my book. There are lots of crossing out on these printed entries so it should help me to figure out the editing that was previously done. Thank God for that! It will just take a little longer but I think that everything will be fine! Since this happened, I am saving this document throughout the day while I’m working on it. Each night, I am copying the document onto a flash drive.

I am so thankful that I was able to remain calm and figure it out.