Formatting sucks worse than editing, and I wish I had put chapter headings into the novel when I was writing, but I didn't. Now I get to do it all over again: YIPPEE!!! I just wrote and wrote. I have learned from this mistake, and I've been putting chapter headings in my current work.
I just pulled up my document again, and I'm going to start formatting...AGAIN! I looked all over, My Documents, my SkyDrive, every single place I had saved and the work I had done was nowhere, like it had never been done. POOF, vanished. How does that even happen? How does a computer consume your work?
My computer gives me this cute little message when I try to pull it up from the location where I saved it: This file cannot be found. Are you sure you didn't delete it or move it? And of course, it's a rhetorical question, because it's not like you can answer your computer. And if you did answer your computer, it's like it would be looking back at you and shrug, and say, "Well what am I supposed to do about it?" So instead, you just have to click the gigantic X on the screen and then stare at the blank white screen and wonder where in the universe all your work went, and wishing you could have done something more productive in that hour of your life than formatting a piece of work that was intended to be swallowed into the great abyss of computer hell.
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