I believe (I'm not certain) that my hard drive crashed the other night. This means that I will not be able to access my stories for a while. This is not because I didn't have them backed up (I generally use two or three flash drives to mirror my work) but because most of them are widows word 2007 documents. Currently I do not have another computer with a copy of windows word on it... So recovering those files is going to be a challenge because Libre Office doesn't really do a good job of opening .dox files.
Anyway I expect that it will take me at least a couple of weeks to get back to writing anything other than some bits and pieces of poetry... Unless I start an entirely new story using either the Works word processor or Libre Office.
I've been writing on Lost! Which will be a companion piece for On Dog Creek. One of the things which is taking a lot of time is the length of the chapters. To put it in perspective I have about two chapters written and the story is already nearly a third as long (or more) in word count as On Dog Creek.
I doubt that I will be any less than 7000 words for just two chapters. At that rate I expect that Lost will be at least twice as long as On Dog Creek.
I posted chapter 8 as chapter six! I'm so embarrassed. I corrected the mistake so if you feel like checking it out fine. My appologies to all my readers.
I've got the final two chapters of On Dog Creek back from Boon Dock and will be reviewing them and getting them up in the next little while. If you find the end unsatisfying I still hope you will stay tuned to the A Bitch in Time universe. There is more to tell and more to see but it seemed like it was time to give Seamus a rest.
I believe that I have most of the story that I want told complete in On Dog Creek. I am not sure how much more I have to write as the story stands at just over 17,000 words now.
I guess that leaves the question of what comes next? Am I through with the Bitch in Time universe with this story? The answer to the first is that I am fairly sure I intend to write Rocky's story from her view point which also means that no I am not through with this universe.