There’s something about putting good time, research and energy into a post… that all but makes it impossible to motivate myself to write it over if it is lost somehow. You’d think it would be easier, given that the post’s outline is all in my head, but having already written it just adds this strange sort of depressive writers block to the mix for me, and from other writers I’ve talked to, this isn’t at all abnormal.
Between random Wifi and internet failures, glitches in WordPress, accidental clicking away without saving a draft or any number of other unexpected things that could come along and send anywhere from a few minutes to hours of work down the drain. Maybe some of you can better self-motivate, but once I’ve written a post and lost it, I find it very hard to push myself to write it over, making it important to try and not lose it in the first place.
I’d never really put much thought into finding a solution to this, other than trying to get into the habit of saving drafts of my work regularly and hoping that a draft was auto-saved correctly before the glitch came along [...]