Oct 04 2009
Writing Again!
When I decide to immerse myself in work, I really do a good job of it.
I decided to work on one of my ideas for a novel, one that I had done some writing on, and background for.
That was several weeks ago and I still cannot find what I did with the first chapter or so… it is gone. I know the old comp crashed, but we had thought it all saved. It wasn’t anywhere to be found.
I started re-writing it. I’m about a thousand words in and rethinking the whole thing. I took an entirely new direction to start with from the old one. Hopefully it will work out.
Accentuate Services started a new contest for the month, “First Love” is the theme. I found out about it this morning and am 2200 words into it so far in the first draft.
The story flowed as if alive, but I reached a snag and as yet have not decided how to proceed.
Work has gotten interesting as well. We took over a motel that the a/c contractor really, really made a mess out of. I am the poor dumb fool who has to redo everything and make it work.
The actual duct work is too small in places, completely wrong in others, and not even close to reality or the blueprints through out.
I even found an area where they did not connect the metal duct on one side, it missed by nearly two inches, and taped it together.
There are things so far from the local and national codes that the inspectors made us tear it out and start over. some are in gross violation, some are just stupid mistakes that only a person who knew nothing of the trade would make….
Life is interesting I guess. At least I was given two days off this weekend.
Tom
