Backing Up and Moving Forward
My how time flies.
I had started developing better habits about posting, but then my computer died, threatening to take all my data with it. Like most people, I wasn't as careful about backing up as I should have been. In addition to concerns about losing writing projects, irreplaceable photos, and financial records, I was also stymied by not being able to do all the things I do on the computer. For one thing, I pay a lot of bills online. I get the bills online. I get my bank statements online. I track when bills are due on a calendar on the computer, where I also mark when I've paid them. Suddenly that whole routine was gone. I tried going to some of the individual sites, then realized I couldn't remember a lot of the passwords that my browser autofilled. Chaos ensued.
But let's fast forward to the happy ending: all my data was recovered, and at the low end of the scale for such services. I ended up getting a little-used one-year old computer from a friend, donated to me free of charge. Wow. I bought a one-terabyte hard drive to use as a dedicated back-up drive. Of course, by the time this was all handled, which stretched into weeks, many things had run off the rails. Deadline extensions were given. Only one bill wasn't paid on time. Momentum was unconscious, or at least sleeping. Suddenly it's the end of February and I haven't blogged in a month and a half.
So now I'm back. The above photo is me staring maniacally at the screen of my fab new computer, which has a built-in camera. I've reorganized my writing. I've entered blog reminders in my calendar app. Yesterday I wrote the first two sentences of a spec novel I've been thinking about for several months. Below is a photo of the anthology Myriad Universes: Shattered Light which contains my novella Honor in the Night (I know, I know, I just can't stop saying that), which came out in December. Thanks to Ian McLean who sent me this picture from Sydney, Australia, from the Galaxy Bookstore. It's been getting pretty good reviews from the fans.
Time to get refocused and keep things moving forward. While also keeping things backed up!
I had started developing better habits about posting, but then my computer died, threatening to take all my data with it. Like most people, I wasn't as careful about backing up as I should have been. In addition to concerns about losing writing projects, irreplaceable photos, and financial records, I was also stymied by not being able to do all the things I do on the computer. For one thing, I pay a lot of bills online. I get the bills online. I get my bank statements online. I track when bills are due on a calendar on the computer, where I also mark when I've paid them. Suddenly that whole routine was gone. I tried going to some of the individual sites, then realized I couldn't remember a lot of the passwords that my browser autofilled. Chaos ensued.
But let's fast forward to the happy ending: all my data was recovered, and at the low end of the scale for such services. I ended up getting a little-used one-year old computer from a friend, donated to me free of charge. Wow. I bought a one-terabyte hard drive to use as a dedicated back-up drive. Of course, by the time this was all handled, which stretched into weeks, many things had run off the rails. Deadline extensions were given. Only one bill wasn't paid on time. Momentum was unconscious, or at least sleeping. Suddenly it's the end of February and I haven't blogged in a month and a half.
So now I'm back. The above photo is me staring maniacally at the screen of my fab new computer, which has a built-in camera. I've reorganized my writing. I've entered blog reminders in my calendar app. Yesterday I wrote the first two sentences of a spec novel I've been thinking about for several months. Below is a photo of the anthology Myriad Universes: Shattered Light which contains my novella Honor in the Night (I know, I know, I just can't stop saying that), which came out in December. Thanks to Ian McLean who sent me this picture from Sydney, Australia, from the Galaxy Bookstore. It's been getting pretty good reviews from the fans.
Time to get refocused and keep things moving forward. While also keeping things backed up!
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