29
Jun
2010
Book Contract for God’s War & Infidel Arrived Today
(yes, yes, this is the SECOND one. It’s a wacky business)
Need I say more?
Kameron Hurley
“I don’t play well with others.”
- Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Posts Tagged ‘the writing life’
07
Jun
2010
SOMEDAY
Someday I will write something besides radio spots and social media strategies again.
SOMEDAY.
18
May
2010
Food. Get Some.
Have been a crazy Mad Men fool lately. Look! Here’s a picture of some excellent food at Boulevard Haus to distract you!
Am looking forward to upcoming vacation mainly because it means I can unplug from social media pursuits for a whole three days and work on some actual fiction. I’ve got Babylon and Iron Maiden languishing out there on Dropbox.What’s the use of a mobile file management system if you never use it?
Also, boxing classes start when I get back from the Left Coast. Yeah, yeah, delay involves a sprained right finger, which involves a bad dog and a leash. Not nearly as exciting as it sounds.
Man, I’m looking forward to this vacation. Just wish it was another three or four days longer.
05
May
2010
In Which the World Doesn’t End
Some time back, I misplaced my flash drive at the new day job, most likely while moving my office from downstairs to up. Long searches in old office, new office, and three different possible bags I may have stowed it in turned up nothing. The last backup of the files I had on the flash drive was from November 12th, saved to my laptop.
This was deeply crappy, but not a total fail, as I had printed out recent copies of Babylon and Iron Maiden. But it did mean lack of get-up-and-go due to the fact that, you know, I was going to have to retype at least half of 100 pages worth of stuff.
Last night I was going through my old laptop one last time to see if maybe I’d created another flash drive backup before that one, and lo and behold, I found that I’d recently replaced the Babylon file in the actual Babylon subfolder in my novels folder on my hard drive. So, I hadn’t backed up the whole flash drive (most of that info doesn’t change), but I *did* back up the stuff I was working on.
I’d started backing up projects I was regularly working to my laptop on back in December, with just such a scenerio in mind (copying over the whole drive got tedious). I really miss that damn flash drive, but at least I don’t have to retype most of Babylon from scratch.
Now I need to effing get back to work on it.
Moral is, as ever: always backup.
02
Apr
2010
In the Bag
Book 3 work this weekend. Also, bumped into yet another person who doesn’t know what a “copywriter” does. Has the term just totally died out, or do folks just think magazine copy and web page copy gets cooked up all by itself?
Hrm. I blame blogging. I supposed that if just anybody can “publish” some words online, there can’t actually be a job that *pays* you to do that… heh.