If you want me to forget the very sentence I'm typing then you should start chatting with me or call me or send a breeze that tickles my neck, because it is a well proven, highly documented fact that when I'm in the middle of something uber important the chemo brain will kick in.
*side note* I'm not kidding 'bout the chemo brain. I've had extremely LARGE amounts of the nastiness.
Where was I?
Oh, yeah.
See... chemo brain.
FOCUS...
Here's how it all began.
The screw-it-all-up part of this story, not the chemo part.
The RWA Goldenheart deadline is Thursday, December 2nd. That means I must have my darling little entry in the Fed Ex envelope by 6pm on December 1st.
That's two days away.
I open up the newest, shiniest version of my entry and bam... the phone rings.
The husband needs me to look for some fantastic paperwork that may, or may not, be at home. I could sooooo digress here, but I will stay focused.
An hour later, yes sixty whole minutes and a tornado of paperwork later, I sit down at the computer, pull up my docs and click on the next to newest, not quite as shiny as the Goldenheart ready version of my entry and add a few more layers to chp 35. Delete some telly words, about 1500 all together. Put a pinch of sarcasm on the epilogue and bada-bing realize that the past two hours of fabulous uninterrupted work I'd been doing is on the not new, not ready to be entered version.
CHEMO BRAIN.
I'd been looking for the husband's paperwork dated 11-16-11, returned to my computer and pulled up document WIP 11-16-11 and com-pleeeee-tly ignored the already open document 11-26- Goldenheart get ready to visit Disneyland version.
Gasp.
I know...
It's gonna be take out and a long, long, 1/4 inch thick revision night.
*sigh*
or you could send a margarita.
Either one.
But you have both docs, right? You didn't *gasp* delete one did you? Anyway, try merging the two, and then go through the doc looking for the notes (It'll tell you what you did on the side and ask if you want to delete or approve the change).
ReplyDeleteAnd I've done the same thing, so cheer up Cali! It's not the chemo, but the crazy writer in you! :-D