Heir To Magic

I’m saddened to say that I have restarted my novel. I did not want to, I was quite happy to finish it off, however… life is apparently determined that I start out 2009 with a full clean slate.

On the 28th of December my computer got infected by the virtumonde virus, resulting in a situation very much like the one this fellow described. I, however, could not get onto anoher computer to access forums for help, and virtumonde disabled everything right down to my ability to print my novel. :::wails!!!::: So, I have been forced to save my laptop by resetting it to factory specifications, and given the hard lesson of why I should backup my writing - OFF MY COMPUTER - every night before I shut down the writing program to surf the Internet or check my e-mail.

Still growling about idiots that have nothing better to do with their time than make viruses and crap like that.

I have added another 189 words to my novel.  I had to go down to the doctor’s office with my dad today, get a blood test for him, so while we sat in the waiting room, I worked on my novel.  Did not have a very long wait, but enough to get another almost 200 words on the novel.  I started off a scene that I know will make it into the final version of the novel, so it is even a good expenditure of my writing time.

I also got my March/April issue of Poets & Writers today.  I was reading the Editor’s Note, and Ms. Gannon said something I found very interesting, something I want to do myself.  It seems that she has a journal where she notes down her favorite sentences in novels she reads.  I read that and just went “Oh kewl!” because there have been a lot of times over the years where I would read a passage I particularly loved, but I never thought to make a record of them in a journal.  I have no idea how Ms. Gannon makes her entries, but I would think the best method for me would be to enter the passage that I loved, then the book, author and page number where the passage was to be found.  That way I can always find it again in the books in my library.

Something else that caught my attention in Poets & Writers is an article about writer workshops, in particular what is wrong  with them.  I bookmarked that for careful reading when I get a chance to read it.

Only other item of writing note is that I got my renewal for Writer’s Digest mailed off today.  I’ve been trying to get that mailed off for some time, so I was glad to have got it out the door finally.  Now I just have to mail in the talking books deal for my dad.  Should get that done by Friday.

Official Count for NaNoWriMo for today is 267 words.  That’s not bad, but nowhere near where I wanted to be at the end of day two.

Word count for today for Heir to Magic is…. zero.  ::sigh::