The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

I'm Lost!!!!!!!

I couldn't find my flash drive this morning! I can begin chapter seven, but now I'm going to worry all day about where my flash drive is. Yesterday I was so OUT OF IT - allergy season slammed into Bloomington full force yesterday. This morning I felt great until we drove into town, and I could feel my forehead going numb and I knew I would have another hard day of trying to stay awake and focused enough to work.

Kelsey is still out in the car, sleeping off the shock of her introduction to The Zombie World. One of the dead Parker lured out of the ER parking lot is going to inspect her briefly through the car window then walk on when she doesn't move. I haven't decided yet whether to have her be awake or not, but I'm thinking it will be all kinds of better to have her staring at the thing and wishing she could kill it. By the time Parker manages to escape the hospital, the zombie has wondered off, but when he looks in the car at her she continues to feign sleep, thinking to herself how creepy it is that he keeps staring at her. He, on the other hand, is continuing to check her for insipient zombie-ism, since she was injured by one.

Their motivations, especially Parker's are still not quite right. That's going to be the biggest thing that needs fixing on the re-write.

Heh heh. I just wrote this sentence: "What kind of thoughts could be making their sluggish way through its congealing brain mass?"

Working with a Sharpie pen today, though, so the going is slow. I like writing with a pen, I think I come up with more interesting wording. But it's so damned slow, and my hand cramps up pretty quickly. Darned old age.

2 comments:

C. Margery Kempe said...

Multiple back ups, multiple back ups! Build some redundancy into the system. Your technology should never be a barrier to work. But it sounds like you're pressing on anyway, and the drive will turn up tonight.

Keep at it, keep at it (she mutters to herself).

Chuckie58 said...

Keeping at it, keeping at it...

The bigger question is, are you keeping your eyes open. I hate hate hate being really tired and having no options to rest.

I'm fairly certain the flash drive is on the dining room table, but if it's not there will be some major league mourning going on. There's a lot of crap you can fit on a gig drive. *sigh*