I want to cry. No..I want to bawl. I literally want to hold my head and bawl! No. I have not lost anyone. I have only just lost a whole 800 word piece I have just written, a piece in which I felt I did a great job expressing, organizing the words in the way I want them to sound. A piece I felt, in my belly, will be a great piece once I had edited it. Then technology struck! My computer switched off! I didn’t tell it too. Aren’t these things supposed to operate on your commands? It just switched off and by the time I hit the same button, it was too late!!! I have since searched everywhere – every little cell, cabinet, folder, file… in cyber space! Nothing! Just a Carte Blanche stares back at me…waiting for my words…for me to repeat…replicate…duplicate… once again. Will it be better this time around?

Someone said, in writing, you should leave out the bits that readers tend to skip. I say, this is very subjective. What one reader might skip, another might savour. You know what they say about one man’s trash….Who said this writing thing was easy? Someone called Pete Hamill said, “writing is the hardest work in the world not including (I wonder if involving would be a better choice of word here) heavy lifting.