Oh. There it is.
Friday, February 22nd, 2019 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelI found the missing file box.
It was in one of the other closets, with a bunch of stuff piled on top of it but still quite visible. I've probably looked at it a hundred times lately, but always in the context of trying to find something in the pile atop. Apparently it had long since stopped registering as anything other than "platform on which stuff is piled". *headdesk*
I also found the thing I wanted that file box for, which was not in fact in that file box. The bedside stand on which my writing laptop lives has many drawers, the less accessible of which got turned into storage for stuff sort of in progress / I don't know what to do with this / hey it fits here some time ago. (All of a writing-related nature, but that don't narrow it down much around here.) I started rummaging half by accident, and there it was: the original type-written (yes, on a typewriter) version of that Star Trek story I'm not writing, which I once thought was done, but on review realized is just a narrative outline of the actual story.
As an outline, it's not that helpful; none of the problems I've run into in not-writing it are solved in that version, either. But at least now I know, and can stop waiting for a magic wand from the past and get on with working out the issues afresh. Y'know, for that story I'm not writing.
We shan't discuss all the other things that were piled in those drawers.
It was in one of the other closets, with a bunch of stuff piled on top of it but still quite visible. I've probably looked at it a hundred times lately, but always in the context of trying to find something in the pile atop. Apparently it had long since stopped registering as anything other than "platform on which stuff is piled". *headdesk*
I also found the thing I wanted that file box for, which was not in fact in that file box. The bedside stand on which my writing laptop lives has many drawers, the less accessible of which got turned into storage for stuff sort of in progress / I don't know what to do with this / hey it fits here some time ago. (All of a writing-related nature, but that don't narrow it down much around here.) I started rummaging half by accident, and there it was: the original type-written (yes, on a typewriter) version of that Star Trek story I'm not writing, which I once thought was done, but on review realized is just a narrative outline of the actual story.
As an outline, it's not that helpful; none of the problems I've run into in not-writing it are solved in that version, either. But at least now I know, and can stop waiting for a magic wand from the past and get on with working out the issues afresh. Y'know, for that story I'm not writing.
We shan't discuss all the other things that were piled in those drawers.
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Date: 2019-Feb-24, Sunday 06:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-Feb-27, Wednesday 09:33 pm (UTC)The closet is... more than half full. ;-)