So a few weeks ago I was lying in my bed working on the treatment, as I was when I last checked in with you. I put the computer down on the bed temporarily (or so I thought), but moments later it unabashedly crashed to the floor. Don’t get me wrong, this has happened before, but this time it was a fatal blow to the Powerbook’s display.
Hopefully you will forgive me. I will be purchasing a new Macbook in the coming weeks, whenever Leopard arrives. I can recreate what work I’ve done on the treatment most recently, and most my brainstorming notes have been preserved.
The cost of the new computer is going to be quite painful, and the downtime is a serious blow to my motivation. I do expect that with a brand new, much nicer computer the motivation will return without a problem, though, so check back perdiodically as I may provide updates.
The silver lining is the reminder that you don’t need a computer to write, and at least it happened to me NOW and I’ve only lost the 8 pages of treatment and not the 70-100 pages of screenplay.
