Ever had one of those days...?

Today started out extremely well. I won 66p on online bingo lol and planned to complete chapter four of my novel. I was also expecting two amanda vickery books from amazon called,'The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England' and 'Behind Closed doors: At home in Georgian England'. Well the day started by the book not arriving, but i wasn't to worried, as i have two other books from the library which were sufficient for my current needs.

Anyway, I decided to write chapter four using the website 'write or die'. I set the timer for two hours, set the word limit for 3000 words and then I was off, 1hour 20 mins later i was 1750 words in so i thought i had better save and then i was going to have lunch. I knew i wouldn't get to 3000 by the end of the two hours but that was ok. I've never used 'write and die' before so with the timer running i highlighted my words and pushed the keyboard shortcut keys 'CTRL C' for copy.

Well at least I thought I did... I actually pressed 'SHIFT C'

Now on my screen was a blank page and the letter 'C' - not what i wanted to 'c'. Being a microsoft word user, i didn't panic and i pushed two other keys 'CTRL Z' to undo. Nothing happened so i tried it again. I was panicking now so checked the website for help, searched blogs and websites but i found nothing. My 1750 words was gone what a waste of approx one hour and a half.

Feeling totally dejected i went downstairs to my kitchen for that promised sandwich and what do i see behind my front door? One of those green 'sorry we missed you cards' and on it the delivery bloke has put that he has put it by my green recycling box. OK thats fine i think, So i open the door... Oh guess what typical british weather its absolutely tipping it down, the water has soaked through the carboard packaging and my books are wet.

I've just spent the last 2 hours retyping my chapter 4 - Its complete woohoo (said slightly sarcastically - I could have been half way through chapter 5 by now)Oh well never mind what can you do?

So after a crappy day - good chapter i think - I am now approx 12k words into my novel Yay!

Lets hope tomorrow is better...

Your destiny awaits...

I have good news today. That third chapter, the one I have been having such difficulty with is now finished to my satisfaction (pending further editing later). I have even picked out the actor who I would want to play one of the parts if I ever managed to get the book published, it became a success and was turned into a movie. Yes Rupert Friend (Albert in The Young Victoria) I am talking about you, consider yourself hired at some point in the next 10 years.

I don't know if I will ever finish the Novel let alone get it published, be successful, become a movie etc. but I am one of those people who believe that if its meant to be it will be. I believe that things do and don't happen for a reason but we don't always know why and sometimes we're not meant to find out why. I think that we all have a destiny at the end of our life's journey, there will be many paths to reach our destination and we may take a wrong turning, and get lost, get delayed but eventually we find our way back to the road or path and ultimately reach our destination usually learning valuable lessons on the way.

The main character in my novel, Margaret, has a destiny to fulfill. She will also go on a journey and make many choices on the way, some good and some bad. Things will happen which she won't understand the meaning of and will affect her and shape her character. I can't tell you her destiny, or what obstacles she will face, but i can tell you that she is a fighter and she will overcome them.

What about your destiny? Do you believe in Destiny or fate? Are things just coincidence or are they meant to be? Do you know what your destiny is? Should we worry about our destinies?

If you'd like to venture an opinion please feel free to do so in the comment section below.