A Week in Writing #538 - A Bit of a Scare

Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing.

Had a bit of a scare this weekend. We bought new laptops recently and I'm just starting to move into it, transferring files from the old to the new using something called The Tornado. It's a bit of a slow process, but that's not the scary part. I was transferring a folder called "My Writing" which contains all of the Powers Squared, Trophy Unlocked as well as the J.D. Barrister books I've been writing for years, and several other folders. Well, when the transfer was over, all that was transferred and all that was left under the My Writing folder, on both computers, was Powers Squared and Trophy Unlocked. Everything else seemed to have disappeared.

A bit of panic set in, as I had backed up most of my work onto a thumbdrive, but I would have lost the rewrites I had recently done and am currently doing with Skylar. I waited until the transfer was complete (hours) and was able to find all of My Writing in a backup file, which I put back in the folder. I then backed up a couple of files on a thumbdrive this morning before trying the transfer again.

Speaking of Skylar, I've been making pretty good progress on it, even adding what I'll call touches to chapters I've already rewritten, hopefully making it better. I'm trying to do at least a chapter a day. The computer set up is sort of interfering with that, but I should be back to it soon.

No new review this week, though I have at least one to write for They Call It Sin and, if we watch it, the new Beatles documentary. That said, Trophy Unlocked's Three Godfathers Christmas continued with my review of Three Godfathers (1936) as the Saturday Morning Review. The Wednesday Game Day review this week was Trevor's review of Doronko Wanko.

Our podcast this week was a look back at 2024. In addition to tabling at a "major" Con, we also put out two issues, a trade and had tributes to Transformers, TMNT and Usagi Yojimbo. We also had five book clubs and several well-received taste tests, courtesy of Paul, on our YouTube Channel. You can listen to the podcast here and/or wait and watch it on Wednesday at 2:30 PT here. If you do watch, we hope you'll subscribe to the channel as well.

Well, that about does it for me. Keep writing, and I'll see you back here next week.