Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Blogging Bust and Computer Crash

Well, I have utterly failed to to keep up with my blogging. In my defense, I have been totally absorbed in my book. In fact, I was up to 719 pages before my computer came up with a fatal system error. I freaked out. I had 5 chapters that I hadn't backed up on my flash drive yet. My computer guy has had it for 4 days now. He says he was able to back up all my info, so I think my book is saved, thank goodness! But I don't know yet if my computer can be saved. I'm using my son's old broken computer. I'm writing on an older version of word, trying to write new chapters that I can paste into the book later. I also have a few unfinished chapters that I can work on. Let me tell you. As soon as I'm done every day, I copy them to the flash drive.

I'm still really nervous about those five chapters. I really did a lot of cross over of the story lines, bringing things together. Once the book is more integrated, I will start working on the ending. But I think there is still quite a bit yet to go. I imagine I will break the book up into two or three books in the end.

Thank you to those who are following. Sorry for the blackout.

2 comments:

  1. I had a friend who lost an entire book, and now I back up everything immediately. Watching her go through that was enough for me. I hope you were able to recover your chapters since you posted this?

    I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. Are you participating? I would love to read your posts!

    Tanya

    www.re-minderz.blogspot.com

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  2. Thanks for checking out my blog. I am very grateful you were able to re-cover your chapters. This re-minds me that calling in a specialist is often just the right thing. What is your book about?

    Tanya
    www.re-minderz.blogspot.com

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