Wow, suddenly a month goes by and I haven’t posted. It’s just like the old days when I was working for Yertle the Turtle.
Gosh, we have some news now. November was National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. I wrote 52,000 words in November, which is about 60% of the novel. That makes me a NaNoWriMo Winner! (Cue the Dixieyland band.)
That’s probably a good chunk of the reason for missing a month’s worth of blog entries.
Well, so here’s some good news. My first SFWA eligible sale in a long time went live today. The story is called “Catalyst” and can be seen here, in the online zine “Flash Fiction Online.”
So that’s the good news. The bad news is that my main computer, the server that ties all the wireless network together and also holds most of my work, died today while I was working on a video project for somebody. Timing was bad. My writing is all backed up…all but the NaNoWriMo novel, of course. The video is backed up on the camera, but in raw form. I need the cpu power of the desktop computer to be able to process it.
I do keep all my data on a slave hard drive so it’s completely independent of the boot drive. I did that intentionally to to prevent a total catastrophe in case something like this happened. That strategy saved my data once already, about five years ago. The problem smells like something to do with the boot sector because the computer is in an infinite reboot loop. It won’t even boot from the operating system CD.
I took the computer to Data Doctors this afternoon. They should be able to tell me what the smeg is going on. Hopefully it’s something easily fixed.