BronxWench

Now see there, that’s talent, BW!

::ponders::  Well, I kill people off a lot, and it’s never seemed to put anyone off. I made an editor cry once, doing that… 

It doesn’t scare people? I’m afraid it scares readers away!

MCD isn’t so bad a tag!

LOL, that’s what I was afraid of! Oh well, I guess it’ll be my first MCD tag! A milestone, guys! 
And DP, it came soooo close to happening, but didn’t because of rewrites and uncooperative characters. Are you disappointed in me?

I would say so, yes. It’s like character death in slow motion.

Possibly [nec], depending on when and subsequent activity.

Sounds like an excellent start to a story.

“Stranger in the tub!”
 

Is a flexini like a martini?
I’m taking something called tizanidine. Makes me sleepy at the wrong times, but there are worse side effects to have.
BTW, it’s my left shoulder, and I’m right-handed, so I’m afraid JD’s theory is incorrect.

Don’t forget to sign up guys. It gives us an idea of who is coming. The more the merrier. 
http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/65894-2017-halloween-party/
 

It’s all fine. It starts the 25th, but It’s not like it ends that day too.
 

I started a story, but I don’t think I can have it ready in time. Would a poem be okay?

You can do it Clover! It can be creepy, not creepy, sexy, or not sexy. It can be anything you want it to be as long as it has a Halloween flavor. No pressure, just fun.

I have inspiration…  ::cackles:: 
And now that the laptop is working again, maybe I can rough out the first draft between packing stuff up to close the lake house for the winter.

Never fear clover, I got the second draft done yesterday, and already have it in the hands of a beta or two.

Ugh! I soooo wanna take part, but I’ve started and given up on three halloween fics so far! lol Goddamnit. 

I lose at least 2 HDD a decade and one took a good chunk of writing when I was doing parody more. I’d been thinking SSDs were better, but I never had anyone who could save files for me. I lost a 40k chunk as I didn’t know much on how to. I still miss that angsty story, but recreating it just did not flow. Guess I’ll stay with my HDD/cloud backup. Ineed to figure how to save my email boxes and custom dictionary.

I went for 20 years without a single HDD failure.  20 years.  I get SSDs and 3 failures in less than a year, all different brands, all top brands.  At least they were only used as starter drives so none of the important info was lost, which was just as well, because when SSDs fail, you rarely recover any data from them.  Still a pain in the arse though.  SSDs will get better and more reliable in time, but at the moment they’re far from ‘bullet proof’ or ‘fail safe’ like sales people keep trying to tell us.

Absolutely loving the new selection that’s being added on! Do you have any recs for any Netflix stuff right now? I definitely recommend It Follows if you’ve not seen it already – it’s just tremendous.

On HDDs, I have more issues earlier with Seagate too, though WDs have failed on me.  Most of my SDDs are Samsung, good luck so far.

A good backup plan should mitigate failures, which so far have been none with my SSDs but plenty with HDDs.  Maybe it's my luck or something.  Misbehaving OS, or the accidental reformat..been there, done that, and can't recall specifics because I try to block those things out.

It’s the opposite for me: I’ve had little trouble with HDDs but loads of trouble with SSDs failing.  And anecdotal evidence suggests that’s not at all unusual.

Technology is terrific until it plays up, and then it’s Satan incarnate. 

I do most of my writing on the desktop, fortunately, and everything is either Google Docs or saved to flash drives as well as hard drives, so it’s not a lot to recover. All my really important stuff resides on the desktop, and gets backed up to external hard drives as well.
But I’m getting much better at selective deafness, especially at home…