Just keep typing by Eric Beetner

 I recently lost 30K of a novel in progress and had to start again. What’s the biggest setback you’ve had in your writing, and how did you overcome it?

I wrote this month's questions, so that 30K that went missing? That was mine.

My hard drive had a meltdown and in an instant everything went dark. I have a backup drive, but I had been doing that most human of things and putting off for months the notices that the drive was full and could no long backup effectively. What I could recover from it wer...