Overcoming Disapointment

Hey guys!

So I ranted a little. With my word processor dilemma and the inability to open my existing projects I have been left heartbroken and uninspired. Its a position that I liken to when my Dad formatted a disk that I had over a hundred pages saved to. It made me sick and I didn't even want to think about writing for a week... And I NEVER used Microsoft Word again. I went through three or four word processors until I made an important connection with Microsoft Works. Which is a lovely word processor with more tools than Word, but no longer available with Windows 8. So I have thousands of pages worth of writing (not exaggerating) that I no longer have access to. So... I have turned to free-ware word processors, I will be using AbiWord for my joint projects and Open Office for my personal writing.

I opened a new document and tried to pick up where I left off with one of my projects and while I have all this stuff floating in my head, ideas and knowledge, that I want to share... I can't write any of it.. because of 19,000 words that are being held hostage. Losing all that time and work makes me feel sick (I need a file converter).

So lighting incense to Muse today and I am going to use one of my new programs to make a bullet list of things that I still haven't written about so I stop losing ground and start growing that 19,000 words towards the goal of 75,000 (would land at 200 some odd typed pages 400 print pages).

Also as I have been hung up on this for three months and NaNoWriMo is only 3 months away, I have decided to step away from my other projects and start getting other ideas written down. Hopefully as soon as I start writing again I can stop lingering on this stuff, all is not gone forever, the key is just lost.