Nomen est omen. I’d almost finished the chapter last wednesday. I was literally a minute away from publishing it, just going through it for an obvious errors. Then I noticed that, because I’d accidentily published an incomplete version of the chapter earlier, the link was screwed up.
Long story short, while trying to fix that, I ended up deleting my entire progress on the chapter. All of it. Irrecoverable.
I would’ve slammed my head on my desk, only I didn’t want to risk damaging the desk. I’ll try and finish the new chapter soonest – I haven’t been able to, yet, since the last few days were a mite busy. Sorry for the delay.
Sincerely,
Tieshaunn
The Dreaming 
The wonders of wordpress pal. Hope you get somewhere with it now.
Thanks. Will do o>
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That about sums up my reaction, yes
Oh my… I HATE when that happen and I’ve only ever lost short texts to such circumstances. I feel your pain.
On the other hand I’ve often noticed that when you’re forced to rewrite something because you lost it the second one is a bit better so there is that, stay positive.
This is the kind of problem that can be solved with a bit more technology — possibly within WP, or possibly by using an external text editor instead (something that can save versions…).
Inside WP, a few leads:
Recovering revisions:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/
And with more detail about recovering from the trash:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/21/wordpress-recovering-a-lost-blog-post-or-page/
(The second one looks a bit dated; but hopefully it may help).
On the positive side, a forced rewrite can often be better than the original… but it’s not worth the pain, of course.
Good luck!
I know all that – the problem is that, because of two drafts with the same name, I accidentily deleted the draft from the trashbin, too