I made some real headway the night before last. I was a typing fiend! I got into a scene and was just cranking out material. All these ideas and words came flooding into my head- it was glorious.
Later that night I fell victim to a horrendous coughing fit. That sounds very dramatic, but it was more frustrating than anything. I couldn't stop for anything.
It was about 2:30 am- I was drinking copious amounts of hot water with honey and lemon, waiting for cough syrup to kick in. True misery. Especially if you consider that fact that after having three children naturally, incontinence is an issue for me.
So, I'm coughing, sitting on a towel at 2:30 in the morning. I decide to go online and mess around on Facebook or something.
In my coughing stupor, I pushed something on the laptop- the screen went black. I panicked! I held down the power button until I heard it shut down.
I restarted it and re-opened all my programs. I use Celtx for screenwriting and I always keep it open in it's own window.
Always open...so I never close it and....OH NO! I never saved it!!
Sure enough, I lost pages 22-50.
Lesson learned. Celtx doesn't auto-save like Scrivener (a writing program I use for noveling).
I wrote last night, though, and got up to page 43. And I'm glad, actually, that I re-wrote it. I think theres some quality material in this section.
Off to reality for now. Relatives are coming to visit. My immersion into imaginary world tends to compound my real life problems of laundry and grime. Even without thinking about a story, I have a hard time doing normal things like closing drawers or putting the milk away. I'm not much better at the practical things in life than my children.
Ok, I'm going! Off to launder stuff!
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