Wrote 500 words for a prompt and then lost them to a crash

I was at my kitchen table last night, finally nailing a horror prompt about an abandoned laundromat. My laptop froze and then restarted, and the story was gone. I stared at the blank screen for a solid minute before I just started typing it again from memory. It came out better the second time, so maybe crashes aren't always a bad thing. Has anyone else had a rewrite turn out stronger than the first draft?

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fiona3321mo ago

Ngl, "raw energy" is overrated. My rewrite was way tighter and creepier.

adam_anderson618d ago

Does raw energy really matter if no one else is gonna read the first draft?

price.tyler1mo ago

Second time's always better" that's not quite right, first drafts have a raw energy you can't recreate.