[stylist] my novel

Tue Feb 21 17:21:51 UTC 2012

Atty,
You wrote this once; you know what it says. Don't give up. I can't imagine
losing that much. I lost the first draft of a story I was working on
yesterday because my computer really should be replaced. The chill it sent
through me was horrific. That was a thousand words, and I immediately went
to work reconstructing it, which is nothing to what you must be going
through. It's not fun or fair, but don't let it be an excuse to quit. Your
writing is a huge part of who you are. Think of this as a test.

Then, do something regularly to save your work to something other than your
computer. When I re write a chapter of my novel, I dump it onto my
Booksense. If you have a Victor Stream, I think you can put .docs on it
also. I use this method for quick back ups, but once a month I dump my
documents including the profile folders from Outlook onto an external hard
drive which we store in a safe deposit box at our bank. Anything you can do
to keep recent copies of stuff on something external will give you enormous
peace of mind. A CD or DVD would work too, just do something. I know you
feel terrible, but you've gotten back up before. Think of this as one more
test, and remember  -- the best time to quit is when you're on top not when
you're at rock bottom.
Blessings,
Donna

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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" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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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