Good news and bad news.
Good news and bad news.
Bad news first. During the editing process a few months ago, My NanoWriMo novel got eaten alive by my computer. Specifically, the hard drive failed and I had to replace it. I was holding out hope that someone could rescue it my novel from the hard drive, but it looks like the drive is so destroyed that the typical data saving programs aren't able to recover anything. I could pay a professional data recovery place to try, but it would probably cost $1000 or so. As much as I'd like to think my novel is worth that price, I can't justify that kind of money at this time.
Good news. Luckily I do have a copy of the novel, when it was about 73% completed, saved on a thumb drive. I'm going to re-write the lost portions of my novel, and it's going to be even better. My goal is to finish it before November, when the next NaNoWriMo will begin. I figure if I wrote the whole thing in a month I can surely re-write 27% of it in 4 months. This time I'll make lots of backup copies. When I finish it, I will make it available for people to read. Then it will be so popular that a publisher will come and beg me to publish it . It will make millions of dollars and I will be able to afford data recovery on my burned out hard drive. Then we'll be able to compare the two novels noting and analyzing the differences. Won't that be fun? I'll try and update my blog with current word counts to keep up my motivation. Current word count: 36,680 words. Goal: 50,000 words.
Bad news first. During the editing process a few months ago, My NanoWriMo novel got eaten alive by my computer. Specifically, the hard drive failed and I had to replace it. I was holding out hope that someone could rescue it my novel from the hard drive, but it looks like the drive is so destroyed that the typical data saving programs aren't able to recover anything. I could pay a professional data recovery place to try, but it would probably cost $1000 or so. As much as I'd like to think my novel is worth that price, I can't justify that kind of money at this time.
Good news. Luckily I do have a copy of the novel, when it was about 73% completed, saved on a thumb drive. I'm going to re-write the lost portions of my novel, and it's going to be even better. My goal is to finish it before November, when the next NaNoWriMo will begin. I figure if I wrote the whole thing in a month I can surely re-write 27% of it in 4 months. This time I'll make lots of backup copies. When I finish it, I will make it available for people to read. Then it will be so popular that a publisher will come and beg me to publish it . It will make millions of dollars and I will be able to afford data recovery on my burned out hard drive. Then we'll be able to compare the two novels noting and analyzing the differences. Won't that be fun? I'll try and update my blog with current word counts to keep up my motivation. Current word count: 36,680 words. Goal: 50,000 words.
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