06 - Why I have been absent lately ...

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Hey everyone,

you might be wondering why I haven't posted anything in a while.

Well, currently I think the world has it out for me. It really wants to make me miserable.

You might know from my last blog entry that I have moved apartments.
While that was stressful, it was successful.
With one little holdup. My ISP took over a month to hook up my new apartment.

There had been other smaller stuff, but the real bummer was yet to come.
Recently my pad crashed. Hard. The very one I do all my writing on it.
Because of the move, I hadn't had time to make a backup in so long.
Now the final verdict has been come down. I had to do a factory reset.
Which means over a month of writing is gone. Overall I guess between 30k - 40k words.
Part of it was scenes and snippets for "the lokian way". Mostly from the planned final part.

Other works had been hit harder. One story I worked on had 11k words and was about three quarters done.
Several smaller works are gone too. Progress on a dozen or so stories lost to a state of two months ago.
So, with all that given my writing mood wasn't very great.

The only silver lining I currently have is the damn scene (of "the lokian way") I have been fiddling with the last few weeks.
Because of the nature of the scene, I didn't dare to write it on my commute. So I copied it to my PC. So thankfully the one scene that gave me the most trouble in the last few weeks is saved.

I have put aside my whole Sunday to rewrite what was lost. At least for "the lokian way".
Everything else might take longer. With a little luck, I have a new part uploaded on Sunday or early Monday.

Anyway. Sorry for the long silence.
Hope to be more active again.

Hugs and kisses,
Cassy

Comments

hugs, hon

hope things are now headed in a positive direction.

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Thoughts From Another Absentee

Don't be in a rush to post your work. The people who use this site are very loyal, and very patient. They understand these pitfalls because many of them have experienced the same thing.

You may find that starting again actually improves your writing. The ideas that motivated you won't disappear, but thinking about them afresh may enable you to express them more effectively.

Ban nothing. Question everything.