99% finished

[MystyrMystyry]

I was going to try it - but then I changed my mind
Decide to go rock climbing instead - flush my problems down the drain
Find an Ancient Idol face down on that lonely path
Pick it up and study it - hard stone with a ruby and sapphire for eyes

Ask it if it could help me - but it just smiles and pulls a face, and says
'You know I could but I'm not in the mood because
I didn't get enough sleep and I'm Mr Crap when I get woken up - so you'll
Have to wait until tomorrow - this is a friendly message...'

'What did you say?' I enquire of it - 'Why no wish?'
'I just explained it to you - now please let me get to sleep - ask me later
And I'll see what I can do - now bugger off and go!'
'But I want my wish - I deserve it - and considering I found you it's the-'

'Least that I could do?' he snarls even uglilyer - 'I can do less than that!'
'But that's not fair! - I own you and you owe me!'

[MystyrMystyry]

That's the saved part of the first draft if anyone's interested - it got better and funnier with each revision - but I'm afraid I have to move on from this catastrophe

[Delta40]

It is definitely funny MM~

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou Delta - it was also about 50 stanzas which just won't come back

Well maybe in the future some time - just can't do it right now

[Delta40]

Thankyou Delta - it was also about 50 stanzas which just won't come back

Well maybe in the future some time - just can't do it right now

50 stanzas! Man do you have ADHD or something?

[MystyrMystyry]

Not ADHD - a sort of variant on Asbergers I reckon - once I start I can't stop until it's finished to completion

Also it wrote itself - and I had to keep writing to find out how it was going to climax (It was really exciting!)

Then when I'd finished the story I read it back and thought that could be much better if i put this bit there, rewrite that bit, change the context of that bit etc

It featured an entire history of the statue and how it became the way it had become

And it was done in this bickering banter of increasing insults - and at one point early on the statue casts a spell to make everything rhyme

It was really cool, and now I'm the only person who's read it, which is perhaps for the best, but who can say?

[Delta40]

You certainly have alot of energy MM. Lit-Net is a great place to put it for others to read.

[MystyrMystyry]

Did you not read the original post?

Here:

99% finished
Wrote a really good poem yesterday
It was about 99% finished and took two days
I'm writing this to come to terms with my
Devastation as the computer had been running
So well I didn't feel the need to save it
I went outside for half an hour and
When I came back

It was gone


Microsoft can do many things

But it can't replace a poem


Can't even write one



99% finished part 2

Got a replacement for Wordpad
It's like Wordpad but it remembers
To save when you're too busy to remember yourself
It's better than Wordpad
I'm never going to use Wordpad ever gain



99% finished part 3

Why doesn't Microsoft update its 20 year old products
I mean you'd think they'd want to make their existing
Customers happy, rather than lose them to competitors
Maybe they're not a very good company - maybe they
Need a Gov Reg to kick 'em in the arse


:(

[Delta40]

ouch!

[deryk]

Well, you've certainly succeeded at making me hate the speaker. I read this as a commentary on entitlement complex. And yes, it is funny, but the speaker soured my facial expressions as I laughed.

[MystyrMystyry]

And as the story progresses you discover the statue used to be a tyrant, and that the narrator is the erstwhile evil Wizard who turned him into stone, and the statue keeps plotting its escape as the Wizard keeps chasing him down the centuries - your sympathies keep changing as it unfolds - it was an uncommon tale as the two constantly tried to outwit each other but in the process spare the world from their evil like an inverted yin an yang

I was quite proud of it...

[deryk]

And as the story progresses you discover the statue used to be a tyrant, and that the narrator is the erstwhile evil Wizard who turned him into stone, and the statue keeps plotting its escape as the Wizard keeps chasing him down the centuries - your sympathies keep changing as it unfolds - it was an uncommon tale as the two constantly tried to outwit each other but in the process spare the world from their evil like an inverted yin an yang

I was quite proud of it......

Wow.

[MorpheusSandman]

I've had this happen to me, except not on Wordpad. If a piece ever gets far enough that I decide to put it on Wordpad then I always make sure to save it. Plus, I have Wordpad on auto-save every ten minutes for cases like this. But I spend most of my time writing poems in my head. In fact, except for very long pieces, I do most of my composing there and simply sit down to write them whenever I'm fairly confident of what I'm going to do with it. But I've definitely had moments of coming up with something I thought was great, and then forgetting what it was, and blaming myself for not writing it down when I had the chance.

Anyway, I would've loved to have seen the finished product, MM... it sounds/sounded very interesting...

[MystyrMystyry]

I'm thinking it's just my version of Wordpad that was stuffed/corrupted - it crashed twice in a month - but now I save every twenty letters or so

I may have a solution for the quick jotting of ideas - I have a thing for Parker refills - only the refill because they allow you to travel light - but the other day I bought a laser pen which seemed quite nifty

Anyway the laser half broke off and I was left with just the pen half - it has a better more solid feel in the hand but without the full length of the whole pen - it fits in any pocket (it's still retractable due to the design) and writes on bare skin and jeans perfectly and legibly - I'm rapt withall!