Moonlight Encounters

Week Six Goals:
Write 45 pages (11250) Total: 150 pages (37,500)

Yesterday I signed up for the OctNoWriMo on eHarlequin. Which is a power writing excursion, that I'm going to assume they do every month. I assume, I hope... you get the picture.

I signed up for it (which consists of posting your goals on the forum) and went to bed that night with NADA to show for it. Then the next morning, when I went to post my accomplishment the previous night (which was, again, NADA) I realized I would have to take drastic measures to stay on track. Especially considering I started out this week with a goal of 11,250 words and have accomplished, again, NADA!!!

So, once I entered my pitifully lack of accomplishment, I trotted off to my room to solitude, away from my family, to force my brain to get back on the "write track". And you know something...

IT WORKED!!

Within no time I flew through four pages... (which is about one-third of my daily goal now to meet my weekly goal.) Things were looking up!! Until I looked down, that is! And noticed that my laptop was NOT charging like it had been just minutes before. Since I'm a firm believer in "preserving" batteries life, I only plug my charger up when the battery drops below 20%... and I was currently rocking 12%.

I knew I'd plugged the dagum thing up. After checking to make sure it was completely plugged in properly (laptop and wall wise), and testing 6 other wall sockets, I realized my charger had went ka-put on me!

Take into consideration that I do ALL my writing on my laptop. I don't have a single shred of writing info on my desktop. And factor in that my flash drive has went MIA on me. Can you see the pickled egg I'm in? No laptop means no writing! Oh, and my desktop does NOT have microsoft word, which is what I write with.

Refusing to let my muse's twisted sense of humor stop me from writing, I turned on the desktop, opened up Microsoft Works and pounded out another two pages (so far) just from memory of my outline alone.

In your face, Muse!!!!

I found a flash drive (32gig... yes, I'm giddy) and a charger for my laptop on eBay, and hopefully I'll get them by Wednesday of this week to save my sorry hide!!!

In the meantime it's just me, a strange keyboard, Works, and my memory!! Cross your fingers, too, please!! :-)

MB... still on lowly page 109... *sigh*