04.18.07
The New Book – A Missouri Mystery
Well even though I don’t have my new computer yet I have started on the new book. When an idea takes root in a writer’s noodle something has to be done!
The reason I am blogging about it now is that I have discovered a wonderful and new asset to the Internet for writers and probably for small business markets and online marketing. Okay there are some of you wise guys that already know but others don’t and I wanted to share it with you.
If you have ever lost an important or almost finished piece of work on your computer you will really appreciate this tip. Check out http://docs.google.com I am not an affiliate of this program by the way.
It is a free word processing program that you do not have to download. What you write is kept online in a private file. There when your computer crashes or your files become corrupted. You can load files into the program for ease of inserting them into the system of a new computer. If you like Microsoft word, you will love this program.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Just a brief, first chapter synopsis:
(I welcome and would like comments. Title ideas as well.)
I live in S.E. Missouri near a community called Tallapoosa. Although the book is fictional the name of this community will be in the book and an old folklore is the basis of the plot. I would like to say again that the book is fictional.
In this sleepy little farm community on a summer’s Sunday morning a family of four, Mom, Dad, sis and brother sit down for breakfast in the kitchen of the five room home.
Several days later a neighbor comments to her husband that the family must be ill as she had not seen the 6 & 8 year old children at play or any other activity lately. The husband responds that he noticed that the family car had not seemed to move that week. Later, after night fall, the neighbors look out the window to see that the kitchen light was on and the door was ajar. Not that unussual on a warm summer night. When the gentleman gets up after midnight for a drink, looking out his own kitchen window to the neat little home behind him, he sees that nothing has changed.
Not able to sleep he awakens his wife and they decide that he will investigate while she watches ready to call the police or another neighbor if need be.
A shiver runs up his spine as the concerned neighbor enters the kitchen to find the half eaten meal. Walking through the home as he called out to the family he is aware of the eariness of normallicy. Nothing appeared to have been touched in at least a week.
Living on a gravel road, dust collects rapidly. All the furnishings of the home were covered in the dust from the chat road. It was as though the family had sat down to eat and been beamed out of the home without a trace.
03.14.07
You know you’re on the right track when…
My Grandpa Walter used to say, “You know you’re on the right track when everything suddenly starts to go terribly wrong. God let’s it go wrong to see how badly you want it.” Well, I must be doing something right because three weeks ago everything blew up in my face.
I had started a new website and placed more information on it than necessary. I intended to start two more and use half of the content on the first one for the third one.
I purchased the add-on domain name to use for the second site and started building it using my Netscape program. Then lightning struck, literally. We found it necessary to replace our telephone service box, all the phone lines and the telephone. The technician that did this was amazed that my computer seemed to be unaffected. Especially since the phone lines came in and went directly to the computer. It wasn’t unaffected.
Three days after we had all that replaced, the computer started shutting down for no reason until eventually it would not even boot up. I took it to the repair shop and borrowed this one from a grown foster daughter.
Although I appreciate the loan, this computer has no memory to it what-so-ever. There is no word processing program. You can’t load anything on it. It does have Netscape so I have been able to rebuild the pages I had on the other computer but it will not publish them to the add-on domain. If I store more than a dozen wordpad documents I start getting virtual memory and overload messages.
Today, the repair shop called to tell me that the power supply and the motherboard to my computer were toasted. I was advised to replace the computer.
Great! In the two and a half weeks they have had the thing I have lost, not only the job I was almost finished with but, two other contracts that would have netted me more than $500 a month. Which means that I can’t afford to replace it.
Well, I ain’t dead in the water yet God. I will hitchhike the 30 miles to the nearest library to do my work before I give up.
What is your – You know your on the right track when…. Story? I would like to hear it.
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