[stylist] my novel

Tue Feb 21 14:46:32 UTC 2012

This is not a unique situation and don't be discouraged. There are so many 
novels out there that had to be rewrittend dut to losses.  It has happened 
many times to many authors. I know it is really disheartening, but please 
just BUCK UP and begin again - it will work out for you. It really WILL.

I am a bit obsessive about saving things because I also have had such 
losses.  Now, honestly, I save constantly. I just finished a technical 
document I needed to write.  As I went through it doing the different drafts 
and revisions, there were times when I know I saved after every paragraph, I 
am so nervous about losing things at times. And, I make multiple copies and 
save them in different places giving each a number so I can find what I need 
and know at what stage it was saved at.

Go get a nice cup of coffee, come back to your computer, take a deep breath, 
and go for it!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "justin williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com>
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It builds character.

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of vejas
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:14 AM
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Atty,
I'm sorry to hear about your loss.
But you don't have to start from scratch exactly.
I know that sounds weird, but see, the thing is, revising it is faster
because you kind of already have an idea of what you want to say, based on
what you wrote previously.
I once wrote a 10-paragraph essay.  I was supposed to have written 5, but
after I finished my Braille note froze up and I didn't save the document,
but it was faster writing it the second time.
It's not the end of the world.
Vejas

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Dunsé <lists at braddunsemusic.com
To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org Date sent: Mon, 20
Feb 2012 22:35:58 -0600
Subject: Re: [stylist] my novel

They must be around there somewhere.  Back up?
It's not pointless.  It's your work and that is a priceless thing which no
one can duplicate.

Brad

On 2/20/2012  07:04 PM The Crowd said...
I think I lost 12 chapters.  Hard to believe but true.  I think I might just
retire.
Kind of think it is all pointlerss anyway.

Atty

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Leslie Newman"
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Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:27 AM
Subject: [stylist] Reflections on Bill's poem and poetry in general

Bill and others

Bill- Your poem is one of the types of poetry that I can actually
follow
from start to finish.  And you know --- as I thought that last
sentence out,
and am putting the rest of this paragraph together, I am --- 
wondering what
is in my makeup that can make it so that some poetry I can stick
with and
feel that I can actually understand and perhaps even like?
Mostly, I just
don't get what poets are getting at! Bill's type of writing
constructs short
phrases consisting of wording that is for me, clear and it
doesn't like hurt
my brain to fathom.  In saying that, I mean, I usually cannot
follow-see-understand or like most poetry.  Is it --- like taste,
as in what
pleasures me? Is it a mind thing, as in that hard-wired ability
to make
mental connections which end up in the understanding of the
world? Or is it
a reflection of my world experience; the nature - nurture thing
and this is
the experience/nurture part of it which makes it so I get or
cannot get and
like poetry? Like I know there really is a very serious human
thing in the
assents of the various forms of language be it spoken or sung or
written ---
and yes, even in those other representative forms, like art as in
painting,
sculpture, etc.  Yes, I'm wanting to like poetry.

Another thought- to me, most song lyrics are like poetry; more
representative than actual story-line or conversational.  Usually
it is the
notes that move me, not the words.

.The house is quiet, I sit at the kitchen table, the rain
patters on the
roof, and I indulge in examination of me and life.

Robert Leslie Newman
Personal Website-
Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment
http//www.thoughtprovoker.info
NFB Writers' Division, president
http://www.nfb-writers-division.net
Chair of the NFB Newsletter Publication Committee

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