A manuscript lost and found

 If you had written for a long time and then your manuscript was lost, what would you do?

To hear what I did, tune in to episode 458 of the podcast Living the Next Chapter. I share my thoughts on this from 10:55 to 12:40.

Direct link to the podcast session.

You can also read a summary of my story here.

In the 1990s, I started writing just to clear my mind. Back then, there was no cloud, and computers weren't as good as they are now. One day, my husband rebooted our computer and lost everything I had written. I was halfway done and decided just to let it be. I probably wasn’t meant to write that book. He, of course, felt awful about it.

A few months later, my husband gave me a CD on which he had written: “It's back!”

He had worked hard to recover my work from the hard disk. Today, it might seem easy, but back then it could be difficult. Seeing my work again made me think I was meant to write it after all.

While on maternity leave, I decided I wanted to publish the book before turning 40. My book, Jenny, Jenny came out when I was 41, but I finished it by 40, so I counted that as reaching my goal.

Since then, I've written many books. 

The journey was long and rocky, but I am happy that writing is now a big part of my life.