WIP Catastrophy!?! and a needed Prayer!
It’s 4 am in the morning, that’s right 4 am, and I would have been to bed hours ago after a pretty good writing session, but I’ve been searching for an illusive version to my WIP. I keep multiply copies on my computer, SAVING AS so I can have old versions of my WIP. I back up through a Yahoo group, Mozy and gmail and no where can I find the version where I rewrote the ending! I know I wrote it AFTER ACFW because I had a paid critique, and I had great ideas on how to up the stakes. I know I really wrote it! I even think someone might have critiqued it for me.
It was 180 degrees from what I originally wrote, and I don’t think I can muster up the energy to rewrite it and rewrite it as well, so please pray! I’m only 20 pages from the end, and I was getting my writing second wind, now I’m dead in the water (cliche alert) and through it all I have such a peace. No anxiety rolling in my belly (Maybe it’s the late hour, and I’m numb!)
I checked one of my flash drives, there’s a slight chance it could be on another one. But I really have no idea what could have happened to this version. The only thing I can think of is when I wrote it, it didn’t get saved or my computer died and it never got recovered.
This is really not a good thing to happen right now because I’m so far from being finished, and I’m losing steam! I really, really, really, don’t want to rewrite these chapters, and if I have to, I’m not sure when I’m have the mental energy! Definitely not tomorrow! I need some sleep!
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Oh, my goodness, I feel for you. I once lost a chapter I wrote for a novel, and not only did I not have the oomph to re-write the chapter, it depressed me so much, I never finished that manuscript. I don’t mind re-writing something if I have the draft in front of me, but if it’s lost, I’m haunted by the thought that what I wrote before must have been better….
February 19th, 2008 at 12:12 amI’ve been praying for you today, Gina! Do you have an update?
February 19th, 2008 at 8:39 pmThanks for all the prayers! I had a very productive writing day. Added a new twist to my ending, and got through the first rewrite. Though I still will need to go back and add some more emotion. Later in the week, hopefully I’ll be able to tackle the last chapter. I’m still bummed about losing this one, but maybe I’ll get a God-given brainstorm!
February 19th, 2008 at 9:49 pmHope you found it? Sounds like you didn’t let it stop you for long though!
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:10 pm