Lesson 1: Always save your work!

Earlier today I sat down and wrote out a nice post about "trimming the fat" off your writing. Well, just as I finished the post and read it over, I clicked on the wrong button with the mouse and…WHAM…the post disappeared forever into some cyber black hole. All that hard work is gone.

Am I looking for sympathy? No. Okay, maybe I am, but I just wanted to share my experience so none of you make the same mistake I did. Always save your work. Save it often. If I had done that, you’d be reading a post about "trimming the fat" off your writing right now instead of this "fluff" about my absent-minded mistake.

Needless to say I have yet to re-write the post. I will soon. But the experience left me so demoralized that I didn’t have the patience to sit down and write the same thing over again (which would not be as good as the original). After yelling a few choice curse words at my computer, I fell to the floor in tears. An hour later I dragged myself downstairs to lay on the couch, watch mind-numbing television, and drown my sorrows in a bowl of plain popcorn.

I’ll rewrite the post and probably have it up tomorrow.

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