There truly are mysterious keys that eat entire paragraphs in a single bound. It has happened to me in various locations and on different computers. Perhaps a history lesson is needed as a clue to apprehending the felon. Somewhere between the 1960s and the 70s teenagers were no longer required to study typing or keyboarding. It was called progressive ed. Right. More like Murder 101.
I never learned to type. I’m a “selfie”. Yes, Word Press, you may underline that word in red!
Several decades later my lap tops are making me pay the piper, whoever he/she is. I have caught myself staring at the keys, deep into my character’s misbehavior, then WHAM! …I’ll look up at attached monitor and the world’s greatest writing, an entire paragraph, has been consumed, eaten, gone. I’ve no idea what I did wrong. Ignorance is nine tenths of the law. Right?
Help! What key did I pound, hit, and kill that caused such destruction?
When I grow up I want to write murder mysteries and learn how to type.
Enough!
Eleanor Tatum 
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