Since yesterday anything electronic has just fizzled out on me. Case and point: yesterday, while in mid-sentence for something I was writting about online, we have a power outage. The whole apartment complex and block blew a fuse. I should have known better and backed it up every five seconds, if I only knew! Then today, in the blink of an eye I had to do an emergency shutdown on my main computer. Let's just say I had to relocate for a bit for the rest of the night. And just now, as I'm typing part of an article, the battery goes dead on the laptop. Grrr. At least I learned from yesterday and backed up my work every minute so when it died on me I actually didn't lose that much information. Huzzah for small miracles, eh?
I keep thinking back to the time before computers and I think that pen and paper, although tedious, is a great medium for writing. Remember when we had journals that we wrote in instead of blogs? It seemed more monotonous, but at least we can actually SEE our own written word. I do have to admit, since using computers more than writing in my journal I sadly have lost a lot of my penmenship. I just look at what I write, and unless I'm actually taking the time to make it look halfway decent, I just scribble. But I have to tell you, the more that electronics fizzle out on me, the more I keep eyeballing my journal and think to myself, "If the power goes out I won't at least lose you, Mr. Journal." Ok, just so you know I haven't actually named my jounal. But Mr. Journal would make a lovely couple with Ms. Pen. Or should it be the other way around? Ms Journal and Mr Pen? I'm working on little sleep at the moment (what else is new) and I feel like my brain is fried.
Mmm.brains.
There goes the zombie talk at 12:45 a.m. Either that or I'm having an Andrew Zimmern flashback/moment.
Oh crap. Mercury in retrograde again! I think I broke a key on my keyboard. Grrrrreat. Luckily it wasn't a cruitial one. I tell ya.
BTW, go NaNoWriMo! woohoo, got about 11K into it.
Drat you and your amazing nano count! sorry about the funky electricity thing.
ReplyDeleteMust go do battle with story ideas now. Have to pick one. Ugh.
You writing about zombies, or did they just take over randomly?
I do have a little zombie novelette put aside somewhere, but I need to polish it up a bit before I think about trying to publish it with the help of my mother and father-in-laws print shop. I think I'm going to try to actually craft the novels myself. It's kind of small.
ReplyDeleteFor NaNoWriMo I've affectionately titled the work, "How Not to Write a Novel, Novel." Tongue in cheek and rants make for easy writing.