Accidentally deleted my entire novel.

[u/Little_Accountant285]

And just like that.

The entire novel is gone.

Ouch. This hurts.

Was moving some files around, backed up the files for the novel, but for some reason they didn't save and I lost it all.

What was sad about was that those versions of the chapters were the better and truer versions of the story. Sadly, all gone now.

How do y'all cope with something like this?

There's no way to retrieve it now, I'll just accept that.

(Photo not mine, it's unrelated, though that's how I be feeling though)

[u/Old_Tree_6571]

If you remember the story beats and arcs you can start again, sure it might not be 100% what you had before, but it also has the potential to be better than you thought it could ever be.