Jesus Saved . . .So Should You

No I'm not making light of Jesus in my title, nor am I trying to piss off any non-Christians in the audience. Truth is I'm stealing a tag line I saw once that made a fairly compelling impression on me. I played lacrosse in college, a mid-fielder, which meant I ran a lot and every now and then got to shoot. There was this one goalie who had written prominently in tape on his helmet, "Jesus Saves . . . So Do I!"

During this month of NaNoWriMo I read a lot from my Facebook friends and others about their word counts and their stories coming together. Last night, while working on OneNote, an applicaiton that has the benefit of automatically saving everything you type at the time you type it, I lost a lot of work. I don't know if it was a slip of the finger or a mistake in terms of a command key, but all of a sudden Chapters 3 through 18 of my book disappeared completely. I hit Ctrl Z over and over hoping to bring it back but nothing worked.

Thankfully I had downloaded a copy to MS Word just a day prior so it wasn't a complete loss. I ended up losing just a few hundred to maybe thousand or so words, BUT it did make me wonder about what if I hadn't just downloaded that story to MS Word? I would have lost it all.

Save early and save often that should be your motto with writing. And if it helps think about what the goalie's helmet said. That's stuck with me for over 20 years now.