&*%#$!

Promised myself I wouldn’t swear on my blog.  I swear enough as it is.  Trying to keep it classy.  But now I wish I hadn’t made that promise.

And the reason?  After all that work I did last week, I sat down in front of my computer and realized that I had DONE IT ALL ON THE WRONG COPY!  That’s right.  I saved one copy of the first part of the book as an original draft, and the other as a working draft.  Only smart, right?  That way I can go back and see what I’ve taken out, what I’ve changed, if I really like it or not…  Only the previous week I edited the proper working draft, and then last week I edited the original draft.  Brilliant!  Sheesh.  That’s like Writer’s Boo-boos 101.  Right up there with not backing up my work and losing the entirety of Chapter 6 and using “your” for “you’re”.  Which I’ve also done.  But only once.  So I suppose it’s good that I learn from my mistakes.

Crappy Monday (that doesn’t count as swearing…).  I was all ready to sit down and get things accomplished and now I get to go through both copies, line by line, and compare and make sure it’s all the way I want it.  And do I bother changing the original draft back?  I feel like I have to–that was the whole point of having the original draft in the first place.  Hmm…  But wait!  Having learned that oh-so-important lesson about backing up my work, I bet I have a copy of the original already saved.  Ha!  See?  Still work, just not as much.