Hello, dead air space! It's been a few weeks since I posted anything on my progress and based on the lack of comments and views I don't think it really matters except to me. I took a step back after I lost my newly edited version of "Silos". I tried everything to get it back and to no avail, it was gone. I contacted tech support in the word processing program "Libre Office" and got a lot of help there and learned what not to do. Microsoft was helpful too, but retrieving the manuscript was unsuccessful. What makes me mad about that is there is always someone who has to be a smartass, so let's just add more salt to the wound. We live on a fixed income and therefore I'm unable to do a lot of what I'd like to do as far as all the latest writing gadgets floating around out there nowadays.
Everyone has a free-bee platform but they come with many limits, and if you want to have the best you have to pay. That's not an option for me so I do what I can with what I have. Fortunately, I had an earlier revision of the manuscript, but all the work I put into the one I lost is making me mad. Mad at myself because I didn't back it up like I should have even though I had several copies in different formats, it didn't matter because they were all gone. I've since restarted a new revision but every time I try to work on it, I can't. It took a hard hit and now I wonder if I should just put it back on the "shelf" and finish my short story collection. Even that is going slow.
Unless you are a writer it's hard for a person to understand the time and effort it took, a lot of agonizing and restructuring the plot and the polishing phase before submitting it to publication. This was set to publish at the end of June, but it will more than likely be the last of July or mid-August. I want to finish this book; so my sister gave me some great advice: Just put it up for a little while then go back. It's been over a week since I've looked at it, maybe I'll have a better frame of mind today. Some people may think I'm being unrealistic but it is what it is. You try to write a book and lose it, then come talk to me.
