I recently began work on my third publication, and last night I hammered like out like three new pages of dialogue… I saved it, but over night my internal computer battery dislodged and since my power surge protector was off, my computer shut off completely. Woke up to find all that work gone. I was able to recover about a quarter of it by opening the .wbk file in Wordpad, but unfortunately, the best part looked like this:

Writer friends, two words: Auto Recovery. Turn that shit on, make sure there is a destination for the file, and set it to recover every minute. Or else, you get this.