The cursor blinks once. Twice. Then:
You check the backups. Of course you check the backups. But the last backup is from Tuesday, before you rewrote the entire third act, before you found the perfect metaphor for grief, before you finally figured out how to end the chapter without resorting to a cheap cliffhanger. Tuesday. When the character’s name was still placeholder text. When the dialogue was still wooden. nemesis error 3005
You try to save again. Ctrl+S. Muscle memory. A prayer. The cursor blinks once