Uh... guys? Have your saves of an unpublished book/chapter ever glitched to show you a stranger's story?
I was writing an author's note for a yet unpublished book, but everytime I tried to save it told me there were problems with my story. I was like, sure, happens sometimes I guess. So I restored the latest "saved just now" save.
But then it happened again, just right after that. I couldn't save!
So I got curious and clicked on one of those "saved elsewhere" saves. And guess what! It loaded a whole chapter, written in English (my books usually are in German), that I had never seen before.
I deleted my chapter and copy pasted my text into a new one, then went on a research spree.
Since the title of that other book was in the text I looked it up and - voila! I found it!
It's the first published chapter of some book without a cover and like 1K reads that is rarely getting updated. I have never interacted with the writer's account. But it was definitely it! Same spelling mistake. Same text.
I mean, I found a solution for my problem but... it still feels so weird. I didn't try to restore that stranger's chapter instead of my own. What if it would've worked? I could've stolen that person's chapter! Why did Wattpad connect my chapter to some random other chapter?? Does it do that sometimes? It has never happened to me before. Could strangers see my chapters in their saves then???
God this feels so weird.. fitting for a 4am problem.