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@ Cathbad, I hope you got lucky. I didn't. I was working yesterday and my hard drive failed. It crashed spectacularly, taking the whole book with it. Luckily I managed to boot up in Safe Mode and got it back but I did lose the whole day's work, around 5000 words. I sprung for an SSD and I'm giving up on Windows entirely. I'm going to be running Linux Mint with Libraoffice, it's something I've been toying with for a while and this should make my computer pretty much bulletproof.
 
Incidentally, as well as normal back-ups, this is a bonus side-effect of getting your work beta-read. [The attached documents will still be retrievable]. You may also want to send large back-ups between two e-mail accounts of your own, so they're there for you.
 
I do backup and had sent most of it to my beta reader but I lost the whole day which annoyed me. My computer is now better for it, I'm running Linux Mint which is totally secure and I've bought a Kingston SSD which theoretically is virtually indestructible. I'm also copying files to my secondary computer and probably using a cloud service too. Lesson learned.
 
I've got one short story to write, and another one that refuses to start. If it doesn't start soon I might run at it with a pointed stick.

I'm also in research mode for my second novel, which I'm tentatively calling Satan In The Woods. I'm hoping that, if I can read the books I want to and sketch out enough outline and background for the novel by the end of October, I can use NaNoWriMo to give the actual writing a rocket-boosted start and keep the momentum up from there.
 
I finished 'Travelling - lite' today. Well, it's a very provisional first draft but it's ready to be edited now into something readable. I'm very, very, very glad to put that one behind me. Now it's a lightning re-working of my next piece of fiction and then onto better things. Sci-fi next, for sure.
 
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Doing a final proof reading of my completed book and noticed a couple things I had to add and found a real world location I had to look up (I had LOOK UP LOCATION in caps in the text) and hadn't noticed in at least half-a-dozen read-throughs before. But I did leave a few months go by without looking at it, which is why I just noticed these things.

Oh, I have added the relevant location in my book....
 
Struggling through the getting-to-know-you part of the process with Gilbert and Alaina in SG. Managing about 500 words per 3 days, and trying not to get sidetracked with a particularly tempting idea I've had for a ferryman story with a wind-up chain ferry.

Must prioritise...

pH
 
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Struggling through the getting-to-know-you part of the process with Gilbert and Alaina in SG. Managing about 500 words per 3 days, and trying not to get sidetracked with a particularly tempting idea I've had for a ferryman story with a wind-up chain ferry.

Must prioritise...

pH
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I feel your pain. I'm working on a hard sci-fi WIP and an idea for a rather tempting horror fantasy keeps floating around my head. I've scribbled the rough idea down, but I can hear it calling. Must. Not. Pay. Attention.
 
I envy yiz boys. As far as I'm concerned, Focus is the name of a Ford car model and nothing else. That's why I'm mucking around with a new idea rather than getting my editing done.
 
I'm busying myself with relaunching my novelbook (4th written, 1st available for public consumption). I SP'd it a few years ago when self-publishing wasn't an artform in itself, just so friends and family could by it. But now I've decided to update, re-cover and market it properly.

Meanwhile, further stories bubble in my consciousness and I am leaving them to ferment before writing anything down. As for today specifically, it's a sunny Bank Holiday in Derby so I'm going to the pub.
 
After realizing I need a total rewrite of a couple of early chapters (can't believe I left out major components of the storyline!) of my 2nd fantasy novel, I felt a bit burned out on it. So, I've returned to a fun story I'd like to turn into a series of them. It's about a Florida homicide detective that gets a case that proves beyond the normal, stretching into the paranormal. I'm enjoying writing it. :)
 
I'm playing with turning Inish Carraig into a film script, thinking I might seek a film agent for it. So many people have said it would be good to do that with - I had another review last week saying it - and I have a background in theatre so know a wee bit about scripts. I've been at it two hours, have got the hang of Celtx, have done the first 3 chapters and am 16 script pages in. I'm quite enjoying it!
 
Did I forget to mention keeping an eye on work emails, sorting out the last of the back to school stuff, looking after three kids, of which only two of which are mine and keeping the house tidy.

Get on with things, slackers. :p :D
 
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