She also said the book is finished in one of the stories, so that’s 10,000 words in edits? With the notes from her editor that is fairly easy to fix. Yeah it’s frustrating to lose the work but it’s fixing a few words/sentences here and there, it’s not like she lost a full chunk of story.
I’m 30 and I’ve never in my life *touch wood* lost anything on my laptop/computer while I was writing. Once I got an idea out I would click save and carry on. The fact that she wasted the time of an apple support worker because she didn’t save her work is ridiculous!
On another note, it kind of reminds me of a story Emma Thompson shared on an episode of QI about her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility turning into hieroglyphs on her computer and that she begged Stephen Fry to get it back for her whilst in tears. The panel then joked that Stephen probably just rewrote the whole thing and that Emma would have to give him the Academy Award she won for writing it! Lol
I’m 30 and I’ve never in my life *touch wood* lost anything on my laptop/computer while I was writing. Once I got an idea out I would click save and carry on. The fact that she wasted the time of an apple support worker because she didn’t save her work is ridiculous!
On another note, it kind of reminds me of a story Emma Thompson shared on an episode of QI about her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility turning into hieroglyphs on her computer and that she begged Stephen Fry to get it back for her whilst in tears. The panel then joked that Stephen probably just rewrote the whole thing and that Emma would have to give him the Academy Award she won for writing it! Lol