Writer-creatures do not do well when deprived of their preferred storytelling mechanism.

I am going LOONEY.  Due to the whole death-of-compter/terrible-customer-service-cancelling-my-laptop-order debacle, I will not be recieving my new laptop until late November.  Because I have regular computer access through my job, this would not be the plight it is if all my writing wasn't trapped in compressed backup form on a memory key.  Not to mention that I don't really want to put my novels on my work computer, that seems like very sketchy legal grounds.

Point of the story being, I cannot work on ANY of my long-term projects, and IT IS DRIVING ME INSANE.

( IT troubles and writing make for upsetting bedfellows. )

On a slight more random note, I found a quote I'm thinking of putting at the beginning of Sanctuary--another Kipling quote (I have an excerpt from his "The Thousandth Man" at the beginning of The Novel).  Kipling might have been, to put it mildly, a product of his time (and his race/gender/nation), but his poetry resonates regardless.

EIGHT DAYS AND COUNTING TILL SWORD AND SORCERESS XXV COMES OUT!