If they took my computer sure I could rewrite the story, but it wouldn't be the same story. The insights that I had would not be the same, all would be lost. A story is like your family. For a span of time these people allow you into their world, relationships are formed, they are a part of you. I would have been crushed had I lost that.
Maison, please forgive me that the old title is on the picture.I promise I will not change the name if you will continue to tell your story. ;)
I've had something similar. I think my Dad told me that this lamp we have that gets really hot and has a tendency to melt things got to one of my devices. I just thought of my backup drive. I just it not as a backup but as a way to carry my music, my photos and most importantly, everything I have ever written, around with me.
ReplyDeleteI know I could rewrite a substantial amount of what I had on there, but there was the stuff that I couldn't think up again, the characters and stray quotes. The standalone character sheets and plotlines that had just come to me. My novel...Oh, Christ. My novel. If I had to rewrite that beast, all 90K words, from memory, I may just kill myself.
I do have a back up drive on the big computer but I had been using the netbook so I could take it everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI cannot phathom having to rewrite an entire novel. I have learned an important lesson. A bullet I am happy to have dodged!!