It has been over 2 years since I last posted on this blog. It has also been over 2 years since I last wrote a word on my young adult book. This makes me extremely sad and guilty and a large range of other emotions because I swore to myself that I would not let that much time pass without writing.
Not long after the last post I made to this blog a major event happened in my life that changed everything and turned my whole world upside down. I will not go into details, but it took a long time to get over the devastation that occurred, and it's been a struggle to try to overcome what happened and put it out of my mind. On top of the life-changing event, the laptop I'd been using at the time completely crashed. This devastated me even further because I did not have a hard-copy backup of my story. All I had was a partial version of the first draft that I had emailed to myself about 2 months before my computer died. Lesson learned. Always back up your documents!
Thankfully, I held onto the dead laptop in the hopes that I would someday, somehow be able to pull my story off of the hard drive so I could continue working on it. That day came just recently when I purchased this awesome little gadget off of Amazon that allowed me to access all the documents on my old hard drive and transfer it all to my current laptop. I am so thankful that I have my story back.
I am happy to say that I will be working on my YA book once again and hope to have the first draft finished soon and will then begin working on the second draft. I said from the beginning that I was NOT going to give up on this book, and although I stopped working on it for a long time, there has not been a single day that I have not wanted to.
I have not given up on it.
I will not give up on it.
It will get completed.
