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Apr. 25th, 2004 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akeyoftimeSo "Escape" wasn't on the disk. A lot of my writing was - an older draft of "Cut Diamonds", several drafts of "The Waiting Girl" (I story I hated even as I wrote it) and a few other nicknacks.
So I started going through the other disks around the computer, because I was getting really angry that I might have lost this story. It's probably not the best thing I'll ever write, but I love it and I know it's good.
And so I try an older, unlabelled disk and find a file labelled "Niteru4", or something along those lines. Niteru is the protagonist in "Escape" and I'm prone to giving stories in progress working titles by the main character's name. At this point, I'd be relieved just to find an older draft of the thing. I don't mind re-polishing.
Double click.
It won't open - but would I like to retry?
It can't be that easy. Really not. Life has to remind me every now and then that it's in control and will promptly bite me. If I can't get this off the disquette, I am going to scream. The kicker, of course, is that I had a hard copy of the story and I think I recycled it some months ago thinking oh, it's on disquette, I'll be fine.
Stupidité. And yes, I really felt the need to use the french word.
On the upside, all I have to do tommorow is make more progress on my room and go back up to school. I haev fines to settle with the library - which now that I've sat down and done approximate math for, I've discovered I really do owe them that much money. Here summer budget, take a one-sixth slash right now, before May even begins.
-_-
I really hope I can get some work this week. Calling the agent and seeing what we can see.
So I started going through the other disks around the computer, because I was getting really angry that I might have lost this story. It's probably not the best thing I'll ever write, but I love it and I know it's good.
And so I try an older, unlabelled disk and find a file labelled "Niteru4", or something along those lines. Niteru is the protagonist in "Escape" and I'm prone to giving stories in progress working titles by the main character's name. At this point, I'd be relieved just to find an older draft of the thing. I don't mind re-polishing.
Double click.
It won't open - but would I like to retry?
It can't be that easy. Really not. Life has to remind me every now and then that it's in control and will promptly bite me. If I can't get this off the disquette, I am going to scream. The kicker, of course, is that I had a hard copy of the story and I think I recycled it some months ago thinking oh, it's on disquette, I'll be fine.
Stupidité. And yes, I really felt the need to use the french word.
On the upside, all I have to do tommorow is make more progress on my room and go back up to school. I haev fines to settle with the library - which now that I've sat down and done approximate math for, I've discovered I really do owe them that much money. Here summer budget, take a one-sixth slash right now, before May even begins.
-_-
I really hope I can get some work this week. Calling the agent and seeing what we can see.
