Modern Technology. Whatev.

I'm an actress, but I also write. Screenplays, video podcasts, poetry, stage plays...whatever. A story is a story. With the exception of one stage play, and one poem none have ever had a public performance. Until now.

Right now I have two projects to get done - one is a motivational piece for a soon-to-be-published collection of essays, and the other is a short film for a friend to play at an event. Shouldn't be difficult, right? Well, to make matters easier, I already wrote the motivational piece, and just need to tweak it a bit per request from the editor, and make it a little longer.

I went to Starbucks, ordered a sweet drink that I really didn't need and a cookie I definitely didn't need. And I re-wrote the piece. Took me a little over an hour, but I was happy with it. All I had to do was proof it, and I didn't want to run the risk of losing it, so I hit "save". At that precise moment, my computer froze. "What do you MEAN you're frozen? You don't FREEZE!! You're a top of the line, well-pampered Mac!" I waited for it to thaw. No go. *Sigh* I used my cell phone to take a picture of the text that was on my computer screen so I wouldn't have to recreate the WHOLE thing (because it's impossible to create the same masterpiece twice), and shut my computer down. I brought it back up hoping a "recovered" document would pop up onscreen. Again, no go. I sent the screen pic from my cell phone to my computer and opened it. You're lookin' at it. Unless I want to render myself blind (which I do not), it's clear that I have to do it all over again. I was so disgusted that I just closed my laptop & came home. All I could do.

So now I get to start all over, AND I still have to get the other project done.

Color me salty.

I'm ready for next week to begin. I'm over this one.

--Nicole J. Butler

Comments

[George]

Hey guys, I have a blog about modern technology too (but you only really have a post on it). You shoul check it out:

http://www.geopelham.blogspot.com/

I was quite amazed when I read this because I'm an actor too and my mum's a screenwriter! Pretty amazing huh?