Really tired last night so I didn't post until morning (Real morning, not virtual morning).
Work in Marina Del Rey is mostly done on a windoze 7 laptop and, because it was new, I left it in auto-update mode and what a wonderful discovery. Sometime after I fell asleep and the end of Tueday's exercise it updated, causing a reboot, and surprise, surprise, I'd forgotten to save the last little spurt I typed. !@#$&! the evil empire, anyway.
But, pleasant surprise, Word offered to repair the file and I got back everything except sixty mysterious words which somehow evaporated. And it was in the middle - I know where they were because there is a jump from the middle of one sentance to another paragraph. Now if I could only resurrect those sixty words of deathless prose...
Also, in a fit of pique, the system removed all the inter-chapter page breaks - well, it might not be so bad, but there are at least sixteen of them. Mutter mutter. So, after typing and reaching my goal I finally brought up things to standard - switch the font to Times New Roman from whatever weird thing Word liked, real chapter breaks, double spacing, a header with page numbers (this was motivated because I gave soulmate a printed copy to look over and had to warn her not to drop it since there were no page numbers) and all that jazz. Not that it's ready for prime time - it isn't finished, for petes sake - but at least that's out of the way.
So - total for the day is 3,013 words, for a total of 37,675 words.
Keep on truckn'
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You make me feel such a slacker! You and my other friend 30K+ words already... if it weren't for this interfering day job, I'd be in a much better place -- or maybe not. I am very good at procrastination. Congrats on retrieving most of it and best of luck with the missing middle.
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