When Things Go Wrong

When Things Go Wrong, Writer's Life 1 Minute

Publishing my first Kindle book has been an amazing, and frustrating challenge. I discovered that using Google docs was a huge mistake, as well as using a Chromebook for anything.

What I find that makes writing easier is Scrivener or yWriter6. Unfortunately, Chromebook isn’t compatible with any of the above – or anything else. So, a few weeks ago, I found my old purple HP Stream on a shelf, dusted it off, and spent an entire day trying to undo the damage Windows 10 updates did to it.

Afterward, I uploaded Scrivener, and began working in my favourite software to finish my book. Sadly, the laptop only lasted a couple weeks before it developed a relentless scroll.

After trying everything on the net to fix the little bugger, I did a system reset. Guess what?! It didn’t work. In fact, the reset made the laptop refuse to acknowledge the SD card. So, I did a second reset – took it to the end of the yard and threw it in the rubbish bin. Enough losing time on devices that refuse to work.

So, today, it’s a trip to Walmart to find another cheap laptop that I can install my beloved Scrivener on, and get my book up on Kindle.

 

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My name is Yochana, or Yo, for short. Growing up on a farm in southeastern Ohio was pretty lonely, so books and art became my best friends. I wrote my first piece of "fan fiction" in fourth grade. It was based on the movie, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," starring the late Cicely Tyson. That same school year, I wrote a poem that my teacher sent off to a publisher friend. He told her to give me a few years. A little over 20 years later, my poems were published. That to me was a few years. Since then, I've been a reporter who horrified the editors with my grammar skills, wrote for campus publications, written humorous company training manuals, and have written three books. These days, I'm back on the farm taking care of my mom, and living in a '95 Jayco Eagle Mini-motorhome with my cat, Lillie, and three grandkittens. (Thanks, Lillie.)

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