Writer's Block

I'm working on my book again today.  The emotions are strong.  I'm about half-way through converting the novel to text files. 
That'll teach me to use a format that only works on one computer.  I wish I had saved everything I've ever done on the computer in ASCII format from the beginning.

I'm to the part in the book where the girl really knows the guy loves her.  She needs him so much and wants to go to be with him.  I remember bawling a lot during the week I wrote this part just like at the beginning of "Romancing the Stone" where Kathleen Turner finishes writing her book and can't find a tissue anywhere to blow her nose.  I suppose I'm taking this break to write here instead of letting the intensity of reading the novel reach an even higher pitch.

I began the project with the fervor of a woman falling in love with her soulmate.  The words flowed fast and heavy, and I thought the story would last forever.

But, alas, the romance peaked quickly and the love story ended.  Now I must revisit the painful residence of those intense feelings.

A couple of days ago, I began the tedious task of editing my novel.  The manuscript is on my old computer.  First I must convert the files to a format that is readable on my present computer.  I've procrastinated this task for a long time.  As I reread it, the same emotions swell inside as when it was originally written.

Once the novel becomes publisher ready, I'm afraid that the reader will not feel the same passion that I felt as I wrote it.

Well... I better write something in this blog if I'm going to link it to Blogskins forum.  Of course, the whole idea of writer's block is that you don't have anything to say, right?

Actually I have quite a few essays and columns in the works. The problem is that I've been away from my computer for the past two and a half months.  If you're interested, that topic is covered in the Dear Friends blog.

My sister bought a new cell phone before we went to Florida.  It was really cool being able to get on the Internet with a cellphone, but I definitely like typing better.  I sent a message to the Alaska Living Group and it took me about an hour to type one sentence.  I couldn't log into Blogger, and I had to use the search engines to get to my web site.  If I typed in the URL, I got a file not found error.

I've been thinking of getting a palm pilot now.  I saw a keyboard that hooks up to a palm pilot in a Staples Store in Tampa, Florida.  I bought a laptop case with wheels at that store.  Now all I need is a laptop to put in it.