I suppose I really shouldnt say that I was going back to the grind, it sounds so ominous, like I'm dreading it.
However today was the opposite and infact over the last couple of weeks I have been itching to get in front of the computer to write and last night I found it difficult to get to sleep as dialogue was running in my head that I wanted to put to paper.
So this morning I get up and have a meeting at the library with my co-host for the local writers club.
After I came home I was excited to get started I got my coffee, fired up the computer and went to get my USB stick that I put in a safe place over the holidays and....... oh dear! Where was that safe place????
I didn't panic straight away I looked in all the spots that I usually put it, there's not that many. And then I began looking in all the places that I MAY have put it. Then I started thinking well maybe I put it here and it fell down the back. Maybe I put it here and it got swept up with that and got put over there.
At two in the afternoon and three hours of looking I began to panic, I posted my dilema on facebook and the suggestions came in, undies drawer??? the least likely place I would put it??? I tried my sons bedroom, hmmm now I understand why I dont go in there much.
As I sit here and type late in the evening I have still not been able to find it. On it, I have one book almost ready for print, one book finished waiting to be overseen and reviewed one ready for editing and two in the primary stages. ARGH!!!!!!!!
I'm sure tomorrow it will turn up tomorrow.
Out of all of this I have learnt one invaluable lesson. Backup!
Til next time.
Happy Reading
Valissa
