Have you ever written a book? Have you ever tried?

  Yes. When “modern” technology was transitioning from word processors to floppy disks to blogs, I began writing a novel of erotic fiction on my desktop computer. It was the only computer in the house, and our children were young at the time and sometimes used the computer for homework assignments, so I had my novel password protected in order that they wouldn’t stumble across it. I finished several chapters of the tale, and I guess the whole thing can be considered to be about 90% complete, really just needing a final couple of chapters. I reread and proofread and edited and rewrote and added content and took out content and moved chapters around so intensely that I believe it’s a really good, enthralling and captivating story. I was really proud of the character development, backstory, intrigue, plot twists and detailed imagery that I incorporated into it.
  Fast-forward about a year or two later to the laptop computer phase, which I bought, and began to use the desktop computer less and less.  Life went on, and when I sat back down one day to fire up the old desktop, I realized that I couldn’t remember the password to my story. That’s not an uncommon occurrence with me; I forget passwords all the time. i took the tower to at least one computer shop to see if they could help, no joy. I’ve been told that I need to find and pay a hacker to get into it for me, a step I haven’t taken.
  It‘s been a decade now, the desktop tower is gathering dust in the garage, my breakthrough novel locked inside its innards. I haven't  even thought about it in at least that amount of time, so much so that at first I was going to answer this question with a resounding one-word reply: “no”.  See what you made me do?
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