WARNING: This will be yet another post where I complain about my first world problems.
Recently, my computer decided to die. My brother thinks it has something to do with the power button not working, but really I believe that the damned thing had a vendetta out for me. After about four years and absolutely no back-ups, it died without warning, also explaining why I haven't written a new post in quite awhile.
As of now, I am writing from my new laptop, yay! I also bought a flash drive and installed dropbox to ensure that I will not be losing files any more. Hopefully.
However, I sincerely hope that I will be able to retrieve files from my old hard drive, seeing as I had a decent start on my novel outline as well as a bunch of old school essays I've written and would like to have back. But mostly the novel stuff.
Hopefully 16gb will be enough to store all of my novel and school writing, seeing as I have no clue how much space that stuff generally takes up.
On a completely different note, I just returned from a retreat with my Thespian troupe. Is it acceptable to get character inspiration from actual people but tweak it enough so it doesn't completely resemble them and then use it and not tell them? Because that's what I plan on doing sometimes.
My weekend away has also helped to remind me that dialogue is hella important. Props to acting for being mostly dialogue (minus soliloquies and monologues, etc.) and reminding me to not forget about that crucial part of creative writing come November.
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