It’s disastrous when your document is lost because it wasn’t saved. All that work, all that time flushed down the toilet because the “save as” command wasn’t clicked.
Even though I learned in school to always save your work every few minutes, there’s a part of me that wants to keep typing without having to pause and click “save as” when I start a document. It’s like pausing for even a second would be slamming down on the brakes, and to resume and pick up where I left off at would be almost impossible.
Being in the zone is where I want to be when I write. But when I am in the zone, I forget to save the work, and like all unfortunate events that can happen on the computer, something awful can happen out of nowhere: the computer freezes, the power can go out, or the program itself crashes. You’re left staring at a blank screen, realizing that all that hard work has been lost, like it had been written in the sand and the wind blew it away.
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