So, I’ve been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)
Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can’t afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn’t lose all my work.
Idk how infuriating this can be without work lost and such an old laptop. What part of it died? Might be an easy fix. Used laptops are more affordable than you think at a local ecycler. Where I am I could get a laptop or desktop for around $100 dollars and probably no older than five years.
Regardless that I can’t tell the quality of something labeled as fanfic, writing 175k words of anything is an achievement!
I would say it’s mildly infuriating
Ikr. I would be mediumley furiated if my laptop suffered any issues that caused substantial downtime. OP states cloud backups, so they’re good for data. But you can’t use that data without a device.
I mean, how long should a laptop work? OP said it was pretty old, these things happen. I totally understand wanting to keep what you have going as long as you can, but hard drives have a lifespan and it’s usually around 3 years of constant use. SSD are a little better but flash still ages. Not ideal but at a certain point you kinda gotta accept that it’s not long for this world if you don’t do maintenance.
It’s what if style recreation of the entire East Blue arc of the Anime/Manga centered around original and remixed characters. It’s involved a lot of creative content that I workshop with my kid after practice. It’s really helped us to bond. Now, without the means to write down our ideas, it’s difficult to keep the momentum going.
I don’t understand that first sentence, but doing this to bond with your child is amazing! I highly encourage you to have a second backup location of this! That’s almost two phd’s of writing!
That’s awesome actually. It sounds like a fun thing to do with a kid that’s into it too.
Can I be a minor character gesturing rudely at the anthromorphic prophylactic and declaring “Arlong did nothing wrong”?