Recreation · 8:45pm Jul 23rd, 2012
The title of this blog post is actually a very awful play on words; we'll get to that.
For those of you that have finished Chapter 3 of 'From Canterlot With Love', what you read was not the original work. I suppose that doesn't mean much in and of itself; after all, how often is it that a draft of writing makes it through the editing and review process with every word, letter, and piece of punctuation unaltered? I can tell you right now that this journal entry won't. So, I suppose to be more specific, I'll say that the original draft was lost.
For anyone that has experienced this, you know how awful it is; Sisyphus probably felt the same way the first time the boulder got kicked back down the hill. However, unlike him, I got to mope and weep and put off doing it again, so ha-ha. Melodramatics aside, I do think some good came of it though. It gave me a chance to reevaluate my scene building, to think about my characterizations, and, most importantly, to get a Dropbox account. I think the chapter came out better than it would have, though perhaps I'm being narcissistic. Still, once I had regained my momentum, I had a lot of fun rewriting the chapter.
And that's what writing should be: fun. It should be recreation, even when you're recreating.
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And it turned out wonderfully. The only way I can recall feeling the same way was when some game saves of mine were lost. 20+ hour investments just gone. Not entirely the same, of course, but the same "I don't wanna replay (rewrite) again" feeling dwelled for a bit, then I got over it. Just like you!
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You know, I've considered that; however, Word just seems to work best for me. Heck if I could explain why though.