worst... nightmare!!! for a writer.

[xcult]

You have got to be __(insert profanity here)___ me!

So, a few years ago, I had this idea for a feature length. I was going to shoot it with a bunch of friends. Once I started writing it it became more and more bigger. I figured I wouldn't do it justice, if I filmed it.
So I decided I was just going to write it and sell it (simple enough ). Fast forward a few years.

I have just had a TERRIBLE!!! day. Found out I missed a mortgage payment. And I am broker than broke, because the people I am renting the upstairs to, owe me $800.
I called my temp agency to see if it was worth going to work (40 minutes away...we got sent home early on Friday).
I left late...
Sped, going 85 with my fuel gauge telling me, "An Inch to the left of the E...terrible!"
Clock in late.
Get sent home 15 minutes later! No work to do.
So, I'm pissed.

Still with me?

Tried writing some songs / recording. was interrupted by people.
Tried mixing some songs already recorded. interrupted again.
Got a call from the lady friend, stating we wouldn't be hanging out. So we just talked for 3-4 hours.

Great. A whole day wasted. NOTHING DONE!

I sit down. Decide to start re work on this script.
It's been years. Dialouge, situations, and ways to psychologically freak out the crowd have been doubled and the poor have been weeded out.

I finish:
Character list.
Descriptions / relations of characters.
Technical ways of trickery logged in.
Topics of conversations that MUST be conveyed.
Locations and, 'what needs to go down.'
Outline / Story / Plot

I look at a huge RICH TEXT WORD DOCUMENT.
Think to myself, "d**n. This could be good. I'll start writing the skeleton and first draft tomorrow"

Hit the little 'X'

"Save... Yes... No... Cancel"

I'm sure my autopsy will let you know which one I clicked.

Anyways.
Just had to share that with you.
PLEASE
If you guys terrible stories like this.
Let me know. Make me feel better, aye?

Thank you for your time.
ARGH! VENTING WOO! lol

[dmancarnagefilms]

I had been working on this script with a friend for a couple of months right. Then he tells me he doesn't want to write it anymore cause it wasn't turning out how he liked. So I continued to write it myself. Spent many of sleepless night over the summer writing. I even put it in a special folder so no one in my family would happen to delete it.

Fast forward 2 months.

Haven't worked on the script in a while, and I just got a my own computer, so I go to get the script off the family computer to put it on mine. Can't find the folder.

Don't you know it some on deleted it. So not only did i lose that script, but previous scripts i had wrote. I even tried to set my computer back a couple of month to try to find it. nothing.

fuck, so now I am writing a new torture script.

[nomicon]

One thing I always do is email a copy of the finished screenplay to myself so I have an extra-back up. That's in addition to saving it on a floppy or flash drive.