I finally found my missing USB device just as I'd begun to think I'd never see it again. Of course I was very quick to back up my story in about four different places and combine my work with the parts I'd written in its absence. It also gave me renewed enthusiasm and my first draft (minus the epilogue that will be probably 20 times longer than any epilogue really should be) is pretty much complete.
So I'm through with my sulking and back to flexing my writing muscles...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Over before it began
I can't believe I let this little project slip away so quickly; I will be adding to it shortly, but I had a minor hiccup in my writing:
My 2 novels (lifelong projects it would seem; I have been working on both since I was about fifteen) were being stored on a usb thumb drive (yes! I know I am a stupid stupid woman - I do have several backups of these files, but none even remotely recent - I had done so much writing recently that I got well over 30,000 words ahead of the last back up).
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to save another inconsequential file on that same thumb drive - I needed to print out this third file and my puppy had chewed through our printer cables. I took the thumb drive to my Mum's house to use her printer, which I couldn't do anyway because I had saved it in the wrong format and Mum's computer couldn't read it. I then went to the post office to post some parcels.
Now it is gone... the thumb drive, that is. I have searched my house and my Mum's house; turned both places upside-down looking for it. I need to call the post office next and hope they have it sitting in one of those weird 'lost and found' boxes you see in the cartoons. I am so upset for having lost it that I couldn't bring myself to do anymore writing.
I have finally plucked up the courage to write some more scenes for my main novel (it felt so wrong writing them in a blank file - without my other 55,000 words sitting above) and yes, backed it up in 3 different places! Now all I need to do is find that darn thumb drive, or my life will never be the same.
My 2 novels (lifelong projects it would seem; I have been working on both since I was about fifteen) were being stored on a usb thumb drive (yes! I know I am a stupid stupid woman - I do have several backups of these files, but none even remotely recent - I had done so much writing recently that I got well over 30,000 words ahead of the last back up).
For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to save another inconsequential file on that same thumb drive - I needed to print out this third file and my puppy had chewed through our printer cables. I took the thumb drive to my Mum's house to use her printer, which I couldn't do anyway because I had saved it in the wrong format and Mum's computer couldn't read it. I then went to the post office to post some parcels.
Now it is gone... the thumb drive, that is. I have searched my house and my Mum's house; turned both places upside-down looking for it. I need to call the post office next and hope they have it sitting in one of those weird 'lost and found' boxes you see in the cartoons. I am so upset for having lost it that I couldn't bring myself to do anymore writing.
I have finally plucked up the courage to write some more scenes for my main novel (it felt so wrong writing them in a blank file - without my other 55,000 words sitting above) and yes, backed it up in 3 different places! Now all I need to do is find that darn thumb drive, or my life will never be the same.
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