I am fairly certain this is not a good blogging day for me...

Ah there. The nine or so copies of the previous entry are gone. The blog even came back again this time.

I think I'll go have lunch now, and then I'll do some writing. Maybe.

Odd things you find on old back up disks...

Sing, O Goddess Bast, the hissing of Pudge, daughter of Zelda, the cat who brought countless ills upon sweet Pip. Many a brave cat did she send hurrying down the hall, and many a kitten did she yield a prey to dogs and robins, for so were the counsels of Garfield fulfilled from the day on which the descendent of Kato, king of cats, and the great Pudge first fell out with one another.

Half makes me want to pull out the Illiad and do more -- but no. I'm not that crazy. Mostly. But I could, really. It might be fun to do the kitty Trojan War. Oh, and I just got the dvd version of In Search of the Trojan War. I love the book, or just about anything written by Micheal Wood. His show, In the Footsteps of Alexander, was excellent. I intend to watch at least part of the Troy show today.

Writing is going well. I'm over 4000 words on the new version. I have most of the class done to post tonight. I have even cleaned part of the house.

And some disks that would not play on the last cdrom drive now play on this one, so all my lost backups have a chance of recovery. This is great! I recently had a group I used to do a web site for ask me to recreate for them on a new location, since the old server is gone. I might actually be able to make some money on it again!

Overall, despite waking up with a horrible cold, it's looking good.

2046 -- about a quarter of the way back, at least in word count. I like it. Of course I liked the last one, too. But still, this is going well. Definintely more fun than the previous copy. This one, by the way, is not handwritten. It's from a very old, fading dot matrix printer. I suspect I must have done it on one of the old Atari computers. Not the TRS80. That one ate every story I ever fed it.

Is it silly to be doing this with a story I really can't see a publishing future for? Maybe. But it's been fun so far, and I might even end up with it on my site. A first novel might be fun to share.

We'll see.

AAAAIIIIEEEE.

I'm starting over.

I was cleaning out some boxes today and I found something odd. A slightly newer version of the story. It is dated two years later, and the difference is amazing. I used to do that, by the way -- every year or so I would rewrite this entire series until I finally stopped myself and moved on to new things.

I'm taking some of what I did and reworking it into a new version. I got through the first section of the book -- about 8,000 words -- and knew that I wanted something different anyway.

I already have nearly 1000 words on it. Added with the previous work (which I am taking as worldbuilding and counting it, since I'm going to use parts of it again), I have done nearly 3000 words today.

So not a complete loss, and I like the new version better already.

I am not going to redo it again, no matter what I find in boxes.

Time to work, though. I'm betting I can get back up to the 8,000 mark in a couple days, so it's not all that bad.

The first 1000 words done for the day. I've had to play hopscotch with the story, leaping back toward the beginning and back to the current spot, filling in and changing a few points. I'm up to page 80 of the handwritten material, and about 7000 words typed. I've skipped a few passages.

Still having fun, though I think I'll stop and fix a quick lunch. Maybe some fish to drive the cats mad. Seems only fair.