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PANIC!!!... phew
14 February 2021 11:29 amI thought I had lost the notebook with the end of Arctic Raoul (and most of Hertha in it); I'd been carrying it around after starting Chapter 4 in the new notebook a couple of weeks ago in case I might need to refer back to earlier scenes, but when I did want to refer to the previous chapter I discovered I couldn't find it anywhere. Cue absolute terror.
After searching everywhere again and again I eventually found it in the bottom of a bag in a dark corridor in the bottom of the trolley-basket (every bag stored in which I had already checked twice by means of picking them up and scrumpling them in search of resistance from their contents), where it was camouflaged from my touch as a hard, flat object on the hard, flat base of the trolley. I'd taken it with me to buy greengrocery the week before last, and in my (short-lived) relief at actually being able to get some had left it in there.
I pressed the precious volume to my bosom and kissed it multiple times, as Raoul might have said ;-)
I really must get on faster with typing that novel up -- although since I also had a panic early today about not being able to get my computer to restart and then to access the Internet as a result of last night's power cut, computers aren't that safe either. And neither, as I have discovered over the last month, is uploading work to websites where you may not be able to access it in the future...
After searching everywhere again and again I eventually found it in the bottom of a bag in a dark corridor in the bottom of the trolley-basket (every bag stored in which I had already checked twice by means of picking them up and scrumpling them in search of resistance from their contents), where it was camouflaged from my touch as a hard, flat object on the hard, flat base of the trolley. I'd taken it with me to buy greengrocery the week before last, and in my (short-lived) relief at actually being able to get some had left it in there.
I pressed the precious volume to my bosom and kissed it multiple times, as Raoul might have said ;-)
I really must get on faster with typing that novel up -- although since I also had a panic early today about not being able to get my computer to restart and then to access the Internet as a result of last night's power cut, computers aren't that safe either. And neither, as I have discovered over the last month, is uploading work to websites where you may not be able to access it in the future...
