That sound you hear? Those are my screams.<\/p>\n
I’d started a short story last week. It wasn’t much, I wrote two pages in the heat of the idea, and I wasn’t sure if I’d get back to it. If I’d want<\/i> to get back to it. It was, suffice to say, a little strange<\/i>, and not really sellable. At least, I can’t think of a market where this story would have worked. Anyway, I’m getting off message.<\/p>\n
This morning, I fixed a pot of coffee, and as Baltimore has become as rainy as Seattle this past week, I sat down and wrote eight more pages by lunch. The story now stood at ten pages, and I felt good about it.<\/p>\n
Then, after lunch and a trip to the post office and grocery store, and I worked on a story a friend of me asked to look over for him<\/a>.<\/p>\n This evening, after a little LEGO Star Wars II<\/i>, I sat down at the computer, opened up the story I’d worked on this morning, and discovered…<\/p>\n Somehow. I. Didn’t. Save. It.<\/p>\n No, I said to self. This can’t be. It must be somewhere else on the hard drive. It must, it must! Thirty minutes fruitless searches later, no, it’s not there. I didn’t save the stupid story! How did this happen? Was it the little paper clip guy, trying to sabotage my day?<\/p>\n Fuck.<\/p>\n I have the two pages I wrote last week. I can reconstruct the eight pages I wrote this morning. It won’t be the same, but at least I remember where I went this morning with the story.<\/p>\n Fuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That sound you hear? Those are my screams. I’d started a short story last week. It wasn’t much, I wrote two pages in the heat of the idea, and I wasn’t sure if I’d get back to it. If I’d want to get back to it. It was, suffice to say, a little strange, andContinue reading “On Head-Thumping”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4102],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}