A Brush with Death & Just 4 days until script frenzy

Earlier today I had a close brush with Death. It's my novel I'm talking about here. Actually, I had all the good intentions, it's just that I was doing things in the wrong order. My computer's been acting very weird for the past few days, so I assumed that it was a virus and ran some "quick" scans. Nothing came up. Then yesterday, it threw up in my face - any window, any program I opened was blank. It was scary, but it was late and I was lazy, so I went to bed. Earlier today I went back to it and decided to run a full scan on it, to make sure there isn't anything terrible hiding in the cracks. Well, Norton 360 requires this back up thing, and I've never let a program to back up for me before... to put things short, it "backed up," but had all of these errors and didn't update the message that I wasn't backed up and... it was a disaster. Finally, I told myself to stop wasting time and go do what I was supposed to do - write. Right? Well, apparently, my file didn't "exist!" I ran the "restore" option, praying that it would somehow work (which it did by the way), my heart skipping beats. I think I forgot to mention that I haven't backed up my work in progress at all. It takes 2 seconds, but I'm just too damned lazy :/. Now I'll be scared into using good back up habits (for about a month or two, then I'll probably have the same incident). But now I'm still worried since the virus scan didn't find anything and I have a suspicion that one of those nasty April Fool's viruses is lurking on my system. Let's hope April fool's isn't Doom's day for me.


That's a snippet. The dialogue is threadbare, but I couldn't keep up with all the details in the movie in my head. My head is weird, ok? (The formatting wouldn't trasfer into blogger, so I had to take a picture).

Next time I post, it'll probably be either on April Fools or very close. I'm still wondering just how my script will start out...

PS: One of my inspirations for my novel (hopefully not too creepy) :http://aerated.blogspot.com/2008/05/so-you-wanna-look-like-trent-reznor.html