Hours writing an OP and poof gone

I just spent hours writing up a story, a true story that not even my wife of 40 years heard before last night.
It was perfect, I painted a picture with my words….

The jist…… I saw my friend tumble over the rail one night as we we were working in some rather heavy weather off Long Island.
I rushed to the the rail and our eyes were locked on each other as he disappeared behind the boat in darkness.
We never found Paul, maybe I wasn’t supposed to tell it.

GRRRRRR

Hindsight is wonderful, but the fact is any time you are writing something lengthy to post, always use a local word processor, then copy and paste into the online program. Been there, done that. sorry for your loss.

a reply to: PiratesCut


Ummm...yep...as Schuyler stated..."been there...done that"...I think we all have...

to reiterate his other point...I've also learned to use pages or word for composing OP's...





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originally posted by: PiratesCut
I just spent hours writing up a story, a true story that not even my wife of 40 years heard before last night.
It was perfect, I painted a picture with my words….

The jist…… I saw my friend tumble over the rail one night as we we were working in some rather heavy weather off Long Island.
I rushed to the the rail and our eyes were locked on each other as he disappeared behind the boat in darkness.
We never found Paul, maybe I wasn’t supposed to tell it.

GRRRRRR

A text editor sure does come in handy for situations like this.

Once bitten, twice shy...

Thanks guys……Live and learn!

It came out so good too…..boohoo 🤣

I’m getting better and better, I’ll be posting more sea stories.
Keep a weather eye out,
I’ll be in print one day, the wheels are turning, bet on it……

CHEERS!!!!

a reply to: MykeNukem

Write in notepad. Save often. Don't EVER write it online.

I’ve always had to learn things the hard way. No harm no foul, but I do honestly ask myself this question, maybe I wasn’t supposed to tell this particular story at least not in this way.
I thank all of you for the advice I’ll take all the criticism and help I can get!


a reply to: billxam

a reply to: PiratesCut

NEVER...compose on site. Not something worth saving.

We: Can type our programs out 1st elsewhere, cut and paste into ATS. Save to your comptr, then c n p it over!!! Never lose anything!

Welcome

You can also just ‘select all’ and ‘copy’ before you post... or whenever a thread/post gets so long that you wouldn’t be bothered typing it out again if you lost it.

That’s what I do anyway.

originally posted by: PiratesCut
Thanks guys……Live and learn!

It came out so good too…..boohoo 🤣

I’m getting better and better, I’ll be posting more sea stories.
Keep a weather eye out,
I’ll be in print one day, the wheels are turning, bet on it……

CHEERS!!!!

a reply to: MykeNukem

Lmao, I learned the same way.

Now get to re-writing that story!

I think I’ll let this one go for now.
Something doesn’t feel right, can’t explain it.
Maybe it’s that in 40 years I never even told my wife the story, IDK.
I’ll tell you one more small piece. Bad enough but not the worst….
Six days before that night his wife gave him a son.
She insisted he go, they needed the money….

Yeah, I’m gonna sit on the rest for now…

I’m writing a sea story for the contest…..Spring.
It’s…….coming along just fine…….😎

Thanks again!

a reply to: MykeNukem

originally posted by: schuyler
Hindsight is wonderful, but the fact is any time you are writing something lengthy to post, always use a local word processor, then copy and paste into the online program. Been there, done that. sorry for your loss.

I was just going to say this. This has happened to me too. Now I copy and paste to a note pad as I go. It happens!

Crank it dude

a reply to: PiratesCut

I use Jarte and I have Word but Jarte is based on word pad but is better and easier. My best,

a reply to: PiratesCut

Just save it on your browser.

Press Select all, then Copy.

If for some reason your post doesn't appear, press reply then Paste.

I sometimes accidentally bust up my own posts. Have no clue how. formatting and brackets.

end up just deleting it all and going "nice weather today!"

the workings of the forums here, is almost as bad as reddit...

ps, I shall raise a glass to Paul.. sorry for you loss, brother..

Thanks man! 😎




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Next time save it as a word document as you go.