Save Your Work While Writing

As a writer you may have years of experience to reflect on. You are well aware of the importance of saving your work. After all isn’t it just common sense? But have you ever been so engrossed in a topic that you found yourself typing away, documenting every spark of genius developing in your mind that you forgot to save your work? Come on now, you can admit it has happened once or twice.

Reason Why to Save Your Work

That is exactly what happened to a document I was working on. It was one of those moments when I had a seriously inspiring thought on “Extreme Couponing.” Research was completed, antidotes lined up with the creative juices flowing. So what happened?

There I was typing a way writing the article. At last word count check I had amassed over 600 words and I was still inspired to write. Yes, this was a topic I felt confident writing about having used the benefits of coupons in the past. I reread the article and was quite proud of my accomplishment. All that was left was to save.

I am not sure when my mind began to drift, or the lapse in memory occurred. After all, writing to me is not just a hobby but a profession. In the seconds it would have taken me to save my work by clicking on the save button, I selected “copy”. Why? Beats me, I haven’t the slightest idea! Well if you think selecting copy instead of save was odd wait till you read what I did next.

Having believed I pasted the document and saved, I shut the writing program down and turned off my computer. Yes, that is right, I lost my work! What was I thinking? I have no idea! When it dawned on me that I had copied the article without saving my work I was horrified. Frantically I turned the computer back on hopping for a miracle, maybe the writing program had auto-saved the document. Unfortunately, that did not happen and I was left with only a memory of a great article on “Extreme Couponing.”

So this is why I am writing this article to remind even the savviest writers to save their work while they are writing. I do believe my common sense may have taken a vacation without notifying me since normally I would saved my work after every two paragraphs. Alas the practice was all but forgotten with the fore mentioned article. And just as a professional courtesy I again will state: Please remember to save your work while writing.

This has been a Public Service Announcement.