So today while being a whirling dirvish around the home throwing out as much crap as possible to make room for all the lovely new baby stuff, I came across my "writing box". Not that there was much in there except for five or six started notebooks. Then I decided to check out my "writing notebooks"...and that is when I made the worst discovery.
Apparently, I never printed out my 2007 NANO novel, which was one of my favorites. I must have been too busy puking or reeling from my discovery that I was pregnant. I did find out the good news three-quarters into the month. Problem is....the novel is on the desk top's hard drive, the desk top that died two months ago. Yes, my friends, not only did I write what I considered to be a good first draft of a novel....it is lost in hard drive hell.
So, if you'd be so kind....if you know how to recover it off the Nano website, that would be awesome, if that is possible at all.
And if you can't advise there....please...do share what it takes to get yourselves writing again.
Fondly,
The Grim Weaping Writer
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If you still have the disk, and it hasn't been reformatted, there are ways to try to recover the file. From the simple: add is as a second disk to another PC (often called a slave) all the way to the expensive, paying for data recovery.
As to what it takes to get writing again. Usually I do a lot of reading, then spend some time in silence. Enough time in silence, and my mind just has to fill up the empty space.
Good luck
Hope you get it back.
Following up with Dandyfunk and Temporus wrote... if you don't have it up by the next GSHW meeting, I can always bring a drive enclosure to the meeting and we can try and recover the data assuming the hard drive wasn't the problem with the computer to begin with.