Always save before shutting down.

I know I haven't been posting lately..  I've  been busy writing. Two days worth of chapters in my book, Hero in Cowboy Boots. I had 8 chapters done, and was ready to start chapter 9 today. But when I went to check the end of Chapter 8, it wasn't there. None of the chapters I had written the past few days was saved to my computer or the cloud. It's gone.

I'm just sick. So much work gone, and it's all because I thought the computer was on autosave. I've learned a huge lesson but at what a cost! Anyone know any special tricks to get my story back? I have Chapter 5 saved. But somehow something got switched off, and so I have 3 chapters missing.

Oh well. It could be worse. I could have had a complete computer breakdown and lost the whole thing. So, I'll count my blessings, thank God for them and my lesson, and get back to work.

Word program is very frustrating to me. My cursor jumps all over the place while I'm typing so that very often, I'll be typing along, and all of a sudden, I'm typing inside words of the paragraph above. Sometimes it will be indenting after the first line of a paragraph, and I know I never typed that instruction. So, I have to stop and make corrections, and by the time I'm finished, I've lost my train of thought and have to stop and think where was I going with this paragraph?

I don't seem to have that problem when I'm typing on this site. Maybe I should just do all my chapters here in Blogger and then save them into Word. At least I'd have a copy in the cloud as backup.

Anyone who thinks writing is an easy job; you should try it sometime.

Back to work, Dixie.