I got my desktop computer back home, finally! I loaded back up my writing programs last night and the night before and will get Heir to Magic loaded back on it tonight. It is sooooo nice to have it back home where it belongs, trying to balance work and protecting my laptop from being burned up from overuse was not easy.
Most importantly, I can now get back to my writing course, which I have been missing so very very much.
I am trying to decide if I would be completely insane to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I want to participate, but I also have a lot of other things that I have to do. I know I write enough to qualify for winning NaNoWriMo ten times over in a month, but to focus all of that onto a single novel…. :::cringe:: I already have a novel in the works.
Now, there is some kind of deal I had seen that let you work on a current novel during that time, but I forget what it was called or where I saw it. I like the challenge of a new story myself, so I might just go along with my scheme to start book 2 of Heir - rather or not I finish the rough draft of book one by then or not. I know where book 1 ends, so I could easily start book 2, I just have to decide if I want to do that or not.
It seems like I have lost about three days over the past two days. One step forward, two steps back and all that jazz. My ability to focus seems to be non-existent, so, of course, the muse is as equally non-existent. I need to get things sorted out and start really working my butt off on my novel, but I need to wait until I get my desktop back from HP before I can do that.
You heard that tale, didn’t you? My computer malfunctioned and had to be sent back to HP to have them retattoo the mother board or something like that. I don’t expect to get it back before probably Friday at the earliest, probably the next Friday if I am lucky. Until then I am getting as much work done each day as I can using my laptop and trying not to burn it out using it as a desktop.
I am afraid that my goal to complete the rough draft of the first novel in the Heir to Magic trilogy by the end of this month is going to fail. I’m not going to give up yet, since there are still 20 days left in the month and I know what is supposed to be happening in the story - I just have to get the time set aside to get it entered into the computer.
Okay, I have been working on a book I want to handbind and sell rather than on Heir to Magic, I admit it. I’m hoping that by starting up bookbinding as a second home business I will be better able to raise the money that I need to raise to help me save my parents’ house. I have a lot of money to raise, and a LOT of work ahead of me, but I am not about to give up until someone comes out here and bodily evicts me from the property. Even then, I doubt I will give up trying to save my parents’ house.
