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You want to know why I do not trust myself with a 50K word novel in under 30 days right now? It’s because of the chance of disasters like what I had to suffer this week. It’s Murphy’s Law being an absolute and, when you promise yourself to write that book “Come Hell or High Water?” Well, guess what? Hell _and_ High Water comes.

And when you have to trust a Vista machine to write your book, well? Just who decided to flick me the middle finger?

Yep. Vista can be as bitchy as ME at times.

It took me a total of four–yes, you heard that correctly–reinstalls of Vista just to get all of my programs up and running properly. It’s a good thing I decided long ago to save my files on a jump drive, or I would be pissed.

Be that as it may, I finally weathered the storm, but that means that I lost a lot of precious time to write a book. But that’s when I gave myself this stress-relieving permission: In the event of a computer related disaster, you are allowed to add up to 7 days in your deadline.

Which is what I did. I moved the deadline for Mim Su Sa from July 3 to July 10th. That should compensate for the time I lost.

Otherwise, progress has been good, and I’ve been developing a lot of scenes and characters. I won’t drop all the details right away, but I will state that the developing as I go might add some extra cards to the stack I have with me. This is a good thing, that means that the story is developing as I go along, and that’s what I wanted.

So with the corrections, I set my status at, as of 9PM June 7th, 15.6K words, 31 Cards to go, and 33 Days remaining.
Barring any more disasters.