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Title: My new book
Post by Callico on Oct 5^th, 2013 at 2:50am

Sleep deprivation is such a wonderful thing! i was editing my book this afternoon when I returned from my Dr's appt. Between little sleep the last several nights due to CH, plus the exhaustion from the trip to my Dr. and my GBS, I went to sleep with my laptop in my lap. When I woke up i found my wife had moved my laptop to prevent me dropping it, and my book was 1456 pages longer than it had been. i went to sleep with my finger on the "enter" button, and just kept adding blank pages! Better than delete.

jc

Title: Re: My new book
Post by Hoppy on Oct 5^th, 2013 at 4:21am

Hi Jerry,
that was lucky. Good job you weren't driving. [smiley=snore.gif]

Hoppy.

Title: Re: My new book
Post by Melissa on Oct 5^th, 2013 at 11:09am

omg Jerry, LOL! That's too funny, and then again it's not. :-/

Title: Re: My new book
Post by Marc on Oct 5^th, 2013 at 5:58pm

Yes, it is ;D

Title: Re: My new book
Post by Mike NZ on Oct 5^th, 2013 at 7:00pm

If only you got paid by the page you'd be rich!

Make sure you've backups of your precious work as you don't want to risk losing anything.

Title: Re: My new book
Post by Callico on Oct 6^th, 2013 at 2:14am

I have everything saved. Because I had done some significant editiing prior to falling asleep I did not want to close it out and start over. By highlighting and deleting pages I've cleared most of them off, but holding the buttons down and waiting for the pages to scroll I'm getting about 55 pages/minute. Watching that nearly put me to sleep again, so i quit. 298 more pages to clear. ;D

Thought you might get a chuckle.

Best,
Jerry

Title: Re: My new book
Post by Hoppy on Oct 6^th, 2013 at 2:27am

Jerry wrote,

Watching that nearly put me to sleep again. [smiley=sleep.gif] [smiley=ops.gif]

Hoppy.

Title: Re: My new book
Post by BarbaraD on Oct 6^th, 2013 at 2:08pm

Now that's funny... and why I don't use a laptop for anything like this. LOL!

Good luck with the editing.. :) :-* :-*

Title: Re: My new book
Post by Callico on Oct 6^th, 2013 at 5:06pm

Barbara,

I'm finding editing to be much more difficult than writing the book! it is almost as if I'm rewriting it, and is some places, I am.

I'm still finding it a very rewarding experience, and really wish I had started this years ago. Probably didn't have the maturity to sit down and do it then, though.

jc