Couldn’t make my updates at the nanowrimo site yesterday. Jungle Drive ate my homework. Really.
I had wrapped up chapter 2 of the Mia novel in my office at home last night and headed upstairs to continue working, when I started getting Jungle Drive connection errors on my laptop. Attempts to open the virtual directory resulted in references to unformatted drives (I didn’t realize the cloud could be formatted…cool!). The Jungle Drive console kept stating it had a xHTTPBad something or other.
Bottom line: I couldn’t open up my work to continue writing, much less squeeze in a word count update at nanowrimo.com before midnight.
Happily, Jungle Drive threw up my homework after chewing on it last night, and I was able to make an update today.
Lesson learned. Cloud computing is awesome until it’s not. And then it’s so not awesome.
Day 2 stats:
Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667
Word Count Goal: 2,500
Actual Word Count: 2,357
Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +690
Total Word Count Score: 5,171
Chapters complete: 2
Even though I knocked out chapter 2, I may end up pushing it out to chapter 3 and write my next chapter as chapter 2. Playing a bit with introduction order of other characters and already making notes about little things I want to revisit in chapter 1. Trying hard not to take that first slippery step down the rewrite slope…