Angela Verdenius's Blog - Posts Tagged "cursing"
New Book Progress
So, as usual, I was having a lot of trouble with the first chapter. It's always hard introducing new characters without rushing everything and trying to explain their different personalities in long explanations. Setting the scene, etc.
So I wrote and re-wrote and cursed a little (okay, a lot, because I do, let's be honest), and then I wrote five more pages and lost the lot (I thought) and cursed heaps because I had no idea why my manuscript hadn't saved those last 5 pages and I panicked then chucked a wobbly (yes, I admit it, I act like a 2 yr old at times), and stormed off to bed to read instead. Yesterday I got up and lo and behold, my 5 pages I'd lost had magically reappeared! Then I realized (much to my embarrassment) that the five pages had always been there but what I'd been looking at was an earlier piece I'd cut and pasted at the bottom of the working manuscript to check out later and maybe add...
Oh dear.
Never mind. The creative juices are flowing again, and I needed that break because I've re-written the scene and am happy with it! So much so the hero and I aren't fighting and I like him much better ;-)
Onward I go!
So I wrote and re-wrote and cursed a little (okay, a lot, because I do, let's be honest), and then I wrote five more pages and lost the lot (I thought) and cursed heaps because I had no idea why my manuscript hadn't saved those last 5 pages and I panicked then chucked a wobbly (yes, I admit it, I act like a 2 yr old at times), and stormed off to bed to read instead. Yesterday I got up and lo and behold, my 5 pages I'd lost had magically reappeared! Then I realized (much to my embarrassment) that the five pages had always been there but what I'd been looking at was an earlier piece I'd cut and pasted at the bottom of the working manuscript to check out later and maybe add...
Oh dear.
Never mind. The creative juices are flowing again, and I needed that break because I've re-written the scene and am happy with it! So much so the hero and I aren't fighting and I like him much better ;-)
Onward I go!
