User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/I Might Be MIA for a Bit/@comment-4353921-20140512182930

I'm so sorry about your loss. I had 2 dogs growing up, and both of them were among my best friends and family. Losing them was devastating, so I know how you feel on that count.

As for my writing, I've got backups on flashdrive, which automatically backs up once a week, so that should be okay. I'm thinking now, tho, about a hard drive crash with my flash drive in....would that kill my backup? Either way, Gid and I have had hard drive problems in the past, so we always have a backup somewhere. I certainly hope yours is recoverable. I know how devastating losing edited writing can be. I lost my rewrite on a research paper in college. I'd accidentally saved my original over my rewrite, so no recovery possible. Made me want to stop rewriting, but I finished mentally berating myself and got back to work. Flowed a little better my 2nd rewrite, even tho I probably forgot to reinsert a thing or three. don't give up on your beautiful rewrite! Your story is amazing!! :)