When weird writing habits come in handy

I've mentioned before on the blog that I like to do my revisions by hand. And I've shown you what it ends up looking like and how much paper (and ink) I waste:


But it also came in handy another way.
We've all learned the lesson to back up our work. I just learned it again this past weekend, when my hard drive crashed. There is a good chance that I won't be able to recover ANY of my data. I back up MOST things--but I can be lazy about it, and in this instance, I'd been lazy. I hadn't backed up f...