LiKNa

Man, it's been a long time since I updated this :/ I'm working full time now as well as attempting to write a novel, so I really haven't had time to think of much else. Travelling to and from the place I work is exhausting and time-consuming, so I'll probably be looking for somewhere more convenient in the near future. Until then, though, I've got zero free time. I checked my messages this morning to find that I won something in lovetodeviate (https://www.deviantart.com/lovetodeviate)'s Lit Crit Contest, which was great. I've never won anything like that before! Thanks to all the judges who liked my crit. I see that I had a word count thing going on the last time I posted here

So, I've been keeping two copies of my novel-in-progress; one as a 'main', and the other as a backup that I update at the end of the day. On Wednesday, I accidentally deleted the main rather than backup, losing several thousand words in the process. This explains why there's a gap in the story with a big [FILL THIS IN LATER] where a pivotal scene should be. I've always been encrypting the main file, because I'm paranoid and don't like people snooping around my files (and am currently doing a lot of my writing on someone else's laptop). Something went a bit screwy with the encryption program yesterday, the end result being that every time I

There's a secret method of getting lynched that will work for absolutely anyone (as long as you're Irish). Want to know what it is? Say that you think England is roughly 10,0000 times better than Ireland in every conceivable way. Anyway, I'm back in the land of Eire, where our delightfully insane climate is currently having a brief spate of 'late spring'. Tomorrow we're in for some torrential rain, though, so I guess that evens things out. I've been hard at work on a novel, so I haven't done anything for dA. I probably won't until I need a break from it. However, I will be keeping a handy little counter on my journal to say what my curren