I am postponing the Friday Feature until next week, so I just wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing. Next week I should get back to my blogging schedule, with the Monday Meeting, Friday Feature, and riff-raff in between.
On the writing front, I'm enjoying attacking my new manuscript, building it up, laying that foundation. Hoping all the cups will stay up. Hoping it doesn't disappear from my computer. Yesterday, while I was shooing a kitten off the computer keyboard...
...I accidentally hit 'control', a kitten walked across the keys, and *poof* I found myself staring at a blank screen. Completely blank. Manuscript GONE. Not freaking out (much), I hit what I thought was undo (everyone can weigh in about what this actually might be--maybe I should read the laptop manual) without success. I ended up quickly saving the new document under a new name, so that yesterday's file stayed saved with the old name. But I lost the day's words, and had to rewrite the scene. Which, to be honest, was fine. It's ALWAYS better the second time around. But, a cautionary tale, nonetheless. Backup. Backup Backup.
Especially when there are such accomplices underfoot.
Hopefully my manuscript will last longer than this cup tower!
How's your writing life? Have you had an close calls, or computer SNAFUs recently? How are you keeping your cups stacked up?
