Just when I started feeling truly motivated..... And I'm finally starting to deliver (hey, I definitely consider 3 posts in one week DELIVERING!). This more consistent posting was inspiring me to consider bringing fewer books up north and spending a couple of hours each day working on my novel.
And then..........
My laptop crashed!
It has since been revived, but it is clearly on life support. My WONDERFUL tech guy admonished - "if you have anything on there you want to keep, you'd better back it up soon!" Ouch.
See? So this is where I get sidelined. In addition to stretching my writing muscles by actually writing, I've been furiously reading books on getting published, writing chick lit, etc. I am SO ready. And now this.
Am I tempted to go on the Dell website and order myself a new laptop? Um, yes, and apparently it could be delivered effective 7/22. I found this out after building the whole thing and then aborting in a panic.
Am I also tempted to just save my current progress on the book, back it up and put my head in the sand and resign myself to passive reading for a full seven days? Yes, definitely I am. In an effort to persevere, I am considering writing on the crippled laptop anyway. But what happens if it crashes and I lose all my new work? Argh! Decisions.
Sadly, my budget dares not accommodate the former, even with my awesome educator's discount and wicked payment plan. Therefore, it's on my plate to either give in to or resist the latter. I hate being a grown up sometimes.
What's a girl to do!?!
2 comments:
So, Start writing the chapters on your blog.
I've got the same problem. I do have a new computer but it wouldn't work with our ink jet printer so they made us a deal on a printer/scanner which I don't like and I can't get the old scanner working . . . oh, and I moved every contact on to my iPhone and when I tried to move all the info on to the new computer, I lost everything. My incompetence is finally catching up with me. See you, maybe, on the blogosphere.
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