[no title] · 3:47pm Mar 6th, 2015
As I'm sure many of you know, between Sage and I (Vermilion) he's the more active of the pair when it comes to actually putting stories up and such. What many of you probably do not know, is that I was indeed on track with...several stories when they hit an unexpected snag. The laptop that I had been writing and saving them on decided it was finished working after I accidentally dropped an xbox controller on it, resulting in a catastrophic failure of the hard drive. I tried for several weeks to get the data from it but was met with no success. I had several hundred pictures, notes, etc. saved on that computer during the four and a half years it served me. Most important, and what I wanted to save the most were the fics that I had been working on, which were a great method of my getting out of my head for a little bit, and putting myself in the shoes of the characters I was writing for and about. Admitedly, I lost a lot of motivation to write after that, and I suppose I never really got it back. I did some writing when I was in california for a couple months on a training detachment with my unit, and put another chapter onto Luna Nos Custodit (which ended up getting fragged by an untimely computer restart, so that sucked.) and a few chapters to a new story that I had been writing, which will remain under wraps for now. Those two are the only one's that I am currently still working on. Everything else has been dumped into a notepad doc with a title and nothing else until I stop trying to write five billion fics at the same time because I cant keep my ADD under control.
I recently came into ownership of a used, but still well working Asus gaming laptop. At first I was a little skeptical of the size, because I didn't necessarily like big laptops, however I broke it in and started playing some PC games again. My setupp left a little to be desired at the time, so I did some rearranging of gear in my room and opened up my secretary unit to function as a desk.
Now armed with a brand new (to me) computer, and a suitable workspace, I slowly felt the motivation to start writing again creeping back into me. So I logged in to FIMFIC and started this entry.
Anyway, the PX opens in 15 minutes and I need to smoke. Once I've got myself materials for munching and making physical notes, I'll be back at writing. It's my day off. Rambling.
TL;DR: laptop broke, lost all my shit, got new one, going to write more, need food and nicotine, hail hydra.
-Vermilion
