Time for an update!

After one week of serious writing,  I found myself yesterday very angry with myself.  Feeling pretty smug about having 9457 words so far towards my goal, only to find out that yesterday, according to the NaNoWriMo daily update, I should have been at 10,000 words. Ok, so no big deal I thought. I will just go back and write some more until I have hit their goal. But then, I continued to read the rest of my email. 

I had joined the google group for the software program that I am using to write this novel, (yWriter), and discovered that I did not read the installation instructions thoroughly  and made a big mistake. 

Yep, as technologically savvy as I am, I didn't see the caveat that read,"Do NOT use Dropbox as your backup location" 

Are you kidding? I thought.  I use Dropbox for everything!!! 

I emailed the thread to see if there was anything that I could do in order to fix this other than the tedious task of copy, pasting, saving, re-installing and then pasting it all back in the correct places. So, after an hour and a half of wasted writing time, sniff, I humbly succumbed to my dried out eyes and shut the laptop down. However, you will be pleased to know, that I created a new backup and it should be fine now. 

This mistake was huge to me, because I have wasted half of the time (a year and a half), that I have allowed myself to pursue this dream before going back to the "real world". 

So, a little bit of advice here, RTFM!

Have a good one, I'm off to my room to write.