I'm sorry. Sometimes, these things happen, unfortunately.
You're going to be annoyed as heck with me for saying this, but sometimes, I just feel the need to preach. Jade Dragon, I want you to repeat this until it's engraved into your brain:
Control-A, Control-C.
Control-A, Control-C.
Control-A, Control-C.
...
As you're typing your message, every now and then - for example, whenever you pause for thought - you hit Control-A, Control-C.
Learn it. Know it. Do it. Live it.
And for a REALLY long story or message, I would even go so far as to suggest that you type it into a text editor and save it to disk. Often.
One day, you'll be thankful for forming habits like these.
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I use firefox and have Lazarus form recovery to help me out when things like that happen.
There is a chrome version as well.
And a safari version!
Almost all forums will have a risk of something like that if you stay on an editing screen for a long time. I have found Paizo better than most but two hours is a real stretch.
I highly recommend trying lazarus, it won't help you now but it will help you in the future.
And for a REALLY long story or message, I would even go so far as to suggest that you type it into a text editor and save it to disk. Often.
Definitely this. Every time I make a decently-sized post, I save it to a txt-file before hitting submit (and some times while I'm writing it, too, in case I hit a button I shouldn't before I finish).
I've also developed a habit of always marking and copying every post, even small ones, before submitting.
Yeah, the length of time you were writing was probably the problem; the connection tends to time out after it sits on the same page for a while. What everyone else has said: Copy frequently while writing. Copy/paste to Wordpad even, just in case you accidentally forget and copy something else over your clipboard. Lazarus plug-in. Also, using Chrome, I can usually back-arrow to the submission page and find everything I typed there, although this emphatically does NOT work with IE.
