I'm sure we've all done it..

I literally poured my heart out in a poem just now. I wrote it in Colornote app in my phone. I was trying to copy & paste, only to hit erase. And of course, I didn't have the back up feature activated. Frustrated is not even the word. I can't even begin to describe how I feel right now.

I think I need to go back to the old fashioned way of scribbling in a notebook. Fingers crossed that I can salvage some of it back from my brain. Sigh.

Who else has done something similar? I can't be the only one.

Every signal one of us.

It's funny though as little bits will stick in your mind.

Those little bits can pull you back to its entirety.

Regards

Sometimes we even loose the little bits of paper.

I have conjured up some of it.. small bits and pieces but it's definitely not like it was. I am going to give my mind and heart a break from it, come back to it in a few hours and pray that I'll be able to form something out of it, maybe even better than before.

Yes! It's ironic too that it can happen when we know better, but for me it happens in the excitement of a moment. Usually when I write something, copy and paste then later that day copy and paste something else that erases what I wrote haha. If it's on my phone it's a bit better since it saves it on the clipboard. But I'm not always thinking logically when I'm in the mood/atmosphere of the poem.

Sorry this happened to you! Glad you could retrieve some of it but I understand the feeling of it not being the same. Sometimes I can salavage specific lines that got caught in my mind, but the poem feels less authentic and less whole.

Give yourself a break and like you said, hopefully when you come back it's even better or takes perhaps a new angle since you initially vented the emotions, and this just expands it.

I have done it a lot! Even when I remember much of it and rewrite it, I look at it and think “this is not the same poem.”

I feel for you. I've lost forever lots of my poems like that.
I now try and write on my phone and then make sure i write it as well in my designated poetry book. Also use a rub out pen incase I want to make any changes. Take care Milly x

Only today I was talking to Mr Darcy who I think highly of about this same thing .... Losing work is a pain in the jacksy lol I've done if before when I was rudely kicked off the site for plagarism, of which was a misunderstanding, so I have since learnt my lesson and save all my work in docs on my drive although sometimes it's much easier to write it straight on to here....

More times than I can count, this is why I am super happy I can back it up to a few places and copy paste is a thing