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My worst writing week started with a broken laptop charger.
It happened on a Tuesday in March. The charger snapped, leaving my main story file stuck on a dead machine. I had to hand write everything for three days on a legal pad from the dollar store. The weird part? Going back to pen and paper fixed a plot hole I'd been stuck on for weeks. Has a tech fail ever helped your writing process?
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the_holly1d ago
Oh man, my friend's old computer crashed and deleted a whole chapter. Like @the_elliot said, having to rebuild it from memory actually made the dialogue way sharper.
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the_elliot1d ago
Honestly, that's the universe forcing you to slow down and think. My phone dying once made me actually outline a chapter in my head instead of just staring at a blank doc. The pressure to remember it all made the good stuff stick.
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