Mmm, this blog has been forgotten
for such a long time, and only used to endorse this contest or that. Not to mention shamelessly plug some awesome
authors and broadly display the many street teams I belong to.
Decided to post my adventure as
an amateur writer. Couple weeks back I had happen what many writers/authors
dread. Not the deletion of the WIP file but really it comes close to that. The file, the one that housed not only my
written word but my notes in the right sequence placement got corrupted!
Oh how I wanted to cry, toss my
external out the window, and call it a loss.
At that moment I let discouragement consume me, even questioned about
continuing writing.
Fortunate for me I loved playing
with the document. Decorating it and then saving it as a pdf file in the grand
illusion of seeing how it would “look” as an ebook. Hey everyone can dream write? Every novice
writer likes to see their blood, sweat, and tears in book form.
Lucky for me that paid off. No –
not in the sense that I got a publishing deal.
My dreams have not reached that level. To be honest I dread it only
because inwardly I do not believe my words are “good enough”. And that I would
be told that straight up.
No… lucky for me the corrupted
file did not mean a complete loss. All
that was missing from the pdf was three or four of my notes that I had recorded
in a file. Happy days when I found them!
Since this particular Work in
Progress is my longest story, ten years plus in the writing, revamping, and
adding. So I could not let the story die
completely. Besides I love the
characters within so much to dishonor them in that way.
I decided the arduous process of
rewriting, hoping to get inspiration to write out the notes to the parts I
need. Each chapter’s rewrite’s
completion I zip the file and email to the account I use for my Kindle to
store. Backups!
Just started the rewrites three
days ago and I got the prologue and chapter one finished. Good progress if I do
believe so. It is going to be a long and
slow progress. My plan is to try to
rewrite at least some part every day and then reward myself with reading.
