Monthly Archives: February 2009

The healing begins

Tonight I will be writing the first words on my new draft of my novel, Thirty Minutes Or Less, that I have written since my hard drive crashed a couple months or so ago and I lost over 80 pages of progress. It’s been a long, emotional journey back from mourning that loss, and I …

February 19, 2009 – 11:22 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged | Comments (0)

Getting deals on “data insurance”

Moving forward, the best way for me to make sure I never lose 80 pages of a manuscript again will be for me to back up my data religiously. Of course, I knew this before I lost so much of my novel, but I just never followed through. No longer. There are plenty of ways …

February 19, 2009 – 12:31 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing, Rants and asides, writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Getting back on the horse

Eventually, no amount of grief or self-pity makes 80-plus pages of lost manuscript pop back into being; they’re gone and they’re staying gone no matter how many weight loss pills, motivational tapes and meditation seminars one indulges in. As John Wayne might say, eventually you just have to get up, dust yourself off and get …

February 16, 2009 – 10:22 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Rants and asides, writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Protecting your mind

Losing most of my first draft of my novel is still weighing heavily on my mind, I’m sad to say, and making it hard to launch back into the tale I was weaving. That’s the down side of being a writer. If one works in a factory or a construction site, there is plenty of …

February 13, 2009 – 1:30 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Rants and asides | Tagged , | Comments (0)

SAG changes leadership, holds on to strike authorization

Despite a 59 percent vote in favor of new leadership for SAG that would rather negotiate with AMPTP instead of strike, SAG has not yet voted to table strike authorization. This is after a campaign that promised to keep actors working. SAG, which has been woefully out of touch with economic realities and how it …

February 9, 2009 – 3:20 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in AFTRA-SAG Strike 2008 | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Avoiding temptation

After losing over eighty pages of a novel I was working on when my hard drive crashed, the temptation as I’ve worked to get started on the book again has been to attempt to reconstruct what I had already written. The trouble with that approach is like the trouble with caring for flowering trees; it …

February 9, 2009 – 2:37 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)