So last night I ended with the scene I’d been aiming at for quite a while. Today’s follow-on (2400 word) was intersting in that something horrible happened:
I lost work.
I took Katherine’s laptop with me to her karate class, and typed up some stuff in Notepad. After about 40 minutes I did a save. A bit later I got a “battery running low” message. A few minutes later, the machine kicked into hibernate mode.
How wude.
When I got back home after karate, Margie had pugged in the machine and started it back up. And, for some reason, it hiccuped (probably the lovely Windows patching reboot annoyotron) and restarted … without saving what was in Notepad.
So I lost about 10 minutes worth of work, everything after the second paragraph of Chapter 5.
I hate rework with a passion. Not editing — I don’t care for that, but it has its moments — but recreating a creative effort that I’ve somehow lost is like slogging uphill in a swamp made of razor blades. Ugh.
In this case, I muddled through, though I recall enough to know the conversation ended up going in a different direction. Odd how that works sometimes.
Katherine got a bit of writing done while I was at my karate class — not a full day’s load, but she’s still way ahead of the game. We’ll do some catchup over the weekend …