Running Out of Excuses for Not Writing

[purpleguitarist]

I've become aware lately that I have a lot of resentment of kids, husbands, boyfriends and parents for not letting me be creative.   Parents' rules and restrictions, children's never ending needs, significant others' demands for attention and service. Constant interruptions, distractions, the TV always on. Not having a room of my own.  There are

Comments

writing

[ronneem]

Hey, if you don't have any more excuses does that mean I lose mine too? Yeah, my biggest excuse is that I lost over 90% of my writing during the move. It's on my old comp. The harddrive was supposed to be downloaded onto CD's and sent to me but it never happened. I've called and begged and been told 'yeah. sure. tomorrow" for seven months. ::pouts::

So I have to start over which is really a pain. And hard. But if you can start over I'm guessing I'm out of excuses...

Good to see you on line a bit.

Re: writing

[purpleguitarist]

Omigosh someone actually read my ranting!

I'd ask for the friggin' hard drive back and get someone else to retrieve the data.

Do you have hard copies or did you send any of the stuff to anyone, that you could retrieve somehow?

When I was writing my thesis proposal, my computer crashed. I had faithfully backed up on floppies, but unknown to me the floppy drive went bad before the hard drive, and the backups were garbage. Fortunately for me I had printed out a somewhat recent draft of the proposal so I didn't have to do too much over, just had to type it all in again. Panicked a lot though, before I found that hard copy. Reminds me, I need to get a printer and print some stuff "just in case..."

I'm going to be online a little more, trying to become comfortable with people actually reading what I write. That's what's really been keeping me from writing. Thanks for commenting.