And yet they did come, often in ways rather comical in their imporbability. We often come to appreciate its glory the hard way - anyone who has ever lost hours or days or weeks of work to a computer crash knows intimately the anguishing interpolation between self-pity and self-blame.īefore computers, backups were both harder and less necessary - copies were laborious to make, but threats to a manuscript were of a more elemental nature and thus came with much lower probability: fires, floods, fits of rage. But the greatest saving grace of the digital writer is the backup. To write in the twenty-first century is to benefit from a number of labor- and sanity-saving conveniences we’ve come to take for granted - spellcheck, find-and-replace, the undo button.
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