First let me preamble this by giving a short history of my computer woes. My three-year-old compaq laptop started falling apart, literally. The plastic frame around the screen popped apart. I taped it. It got worst. I taped it some more. Finally we decided to get me a new laptop. We ordered a HP from Sam's Club. It arrived I was ecstatic. Cristin got my old laptop. She used duct tape. She learned that gravity is stronger than duct tape as the frame would slowly pull apart each time she taped it back together. My new computer made a popping noise one day and then the screen went black. I tried to fix it by hooking up to the desk top's monitor but nothing I did through the HP website made any difference. I ended up calling HP. They sent me a box and I sent in my new computer to be repaired. I got it back and was very excited to get to work. I even spent a day downloading my CD collection on itunes. Another popping noise, another black screen, another call to HP and they are over-nighting me another box to mail back my computer for further repairs. They said it has to come back to the repair center at least four times before they will consider replacing it. BOOOOO!
I have set myself a rather lofty goal. I want to finish the big Sci Fi novel this year, in fact I would like to get it done in the next three or four months. I figured out approximately how many more words I have to write and if I write 500 words on the novel a day I can finish it in 45 days.
So last week was my first week to attempt this. I wrote 550 words the first day I was ecstatic. I only got 150 the second day. Not so excited. Then I only did 100 words the third day and my computer broke down. One of the attempts over the phone to fix my computer resulted in a restore and a loss of about 150 words that I had written. (I wasn't happy with that section anyway). I am still determined to keep up the pace even if I have to hand write these next few days.
