I'm excited for all the excitement for kinkfest! I'm not sure if I'll have time; right now I'm very focused on RL stuff. But I wanted to cheer you on! :D

And also to say that I've never had trouble with DW eating a post before. Have you tried writing in a doc and copying it over so that if it does eat it, you haven't lost anything? I checked my own journal, and I think I have mine set on HTML, not that I have any idea what that actually means. LOL. Are you saving your pictures under Organize > Manage Images and then copying the thumbnail code? That always works for me. It took me a bit, though, to realize that after I'd uploaded, I couldn't just use the code on that page but had to click on 'View All Your Images' and then pick the size of thumbnail (which automatically changes the code for you, which is nice) and THEN copy that code. But I don't know that I've ever lost text. Funny, but I think that did happen to me on LJ a lot, and that's when I got in the habit of writing posts in a doc. But I haven't had to do that here, I don't think. I'm sorry you're having that issue, and I hope somebody else has some good advice for you. ♥