STORYSPACE: In Category #2…
…that being the ‘oh crap, what did I do?’ section of learning, I came to a point where I could not save, I could not save as what I had, and could not save as anything at all. You get that Warning! box (like yeah, I’m not already scared shitless) and you leave the program open for a while. You minimize it, just in case that might help, maximize it back and try again. You do this a coupla two-tree times and one time you even add a box–though you can’t add many more because hey, if anything that work is wasted if you just can’t save.
Finally you say the hell with it, it’s not a Pulitzer piece of literature here, and ‘sides, it’s always available in its boring Windows Word linearity version, so you close the program. And you wait at least fifteen minutes, whisper a secret sacred phrase of magic, spin three times, clap your hands and open it again.
And dang it if it don’t work perfectly.
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