Consider This - Batteries that die

It is the author's curse that a battery is going to die. When I was doing my Honours thesis back in the days when laptops had very (VERY) limited battery life, if at all, I was working on generator power at a Youth Camp. We knew that the generator would go off at a particular time but I was on such a role (as they say) I lost track of time. I ahd written a lot of my thesis and then I heard the generator start to sputter and go down.

OH NO!

I was using Word Perfect, at the time, and quickly hit the save keys. Phew! Then realised there was that message: "Do you want to save?" As I went to hit return to say yes the computer died (the battery had failed) and all that work (about 2-3 hours' worth) went with it. Dang it.

And this is the curse of an author. Today I was going to use the time waiting for my son (while he did an exam) to sit in the car and work on Mary & Martha. I was going really well. I had worked for 45 minutes with the car radio on and then, suddenly, the car radio went off. What? The radio was having an issue?

No, the car was. I had left the headlights on and drained the car battery. It was dead. Deader than dead. Nothing left. NRMA called and 1.5 hours later the car was going again and son was out of exam, but not a lot of writing got done. Once one battery went down, my head went to a non-writing place.

So, I worked on draining the battery in my phone and played "Bubble Witch 3" instead.

Batteries come in all forms, and the brain battery is such an important one. It has to be fully charged and in the right mode of use before writing can happen (well, that's my experience).

Beware batteries.