In which my printer deprives me of sleep
So I decided it was time to print another draft of novel, in order to revise by hand on the printed copy. This is a good thing. This means I am ready (or nearly ready) to actually make changes rather than just planning out what changes to make.)
I was nursing a dying ink cartridge for the first 50 or so pages, and then, it stopped cooperating, so I changed the cartridge. This involved a fight with my printer, but I eventually won.
Then, on page 260 of 272, my printer ran out of paper, and I didn't catch it quickly enough. The printer then promptly decided that it was going to declare itself out of paper, even though I had refilled it, just to be contrary.
After retrying and deleting the print job a bunch of times, and shutting off the printer and turning it back on, I decided to shut down the computer.
Apparently, my file didn't save properly before I did this.
No, don't panic. The file still existed. I had exported a file from Scrivener (a program for writing things like novels) into Open Office (like Word, only free), and the file was still there. It's just that some of the formatting changes I'd made (line spacing, margins, etc) weren't.
I redid the changes.
And discovered that I had a different number of pages than the last time around.
I have no clue how this happened, but it made the simple act of printing 12 pages into the more complicated act of figuring out what pages to print.
Also, it left me wondering where those extra 13 pages appeared from. And also why some of my dialogue symbols decided to turn themselves into something that looked vaguely like Japanese.
Sigh.
Anyway, it's printed now. Half an hour later than it should have been.
But still... grumble, grumble...
I was nursing a dying ink cartridge for the first 50 or so pages, and then, it stopped cooperating, so I changed the cartridge. This involved a fight with my printer, but I eventually won.
Then, on page 260 of 272, my printer ran out of paper, and I didn't catch it quickly enough. The printer then promptly decided that it was going to declare itself out of paper, even though I had refilled it, just to be contrary.
After retrying and deleting the print job a bunch of times, and shutting off the printer and turning it back on, I decided to shut down the computer.
Apparently, my file didn't save properly before I did this.
No, don't panic. The file still existed. I had exported a file from Scrivener (a program for writing things like novels) into Open Office (like Word, only free), and the file was still there. It's just that some of the formatting changes I'd made (line spacing, margins, etc) weren't.
I redid the changes.
And discovered that I had a different number of pages than the last time around.
I have no clue how this happened, but it made the simple act of printing 12 pages into the more complicated act of figuring out what pages to print.
Also, it left me wondering where those extra 13 pages appeared from. And also why some of my dialogue symbols decided to turn themselves into something that looked vaguely like Japanese.
Sigh.
Anyway, it's printed now. Half an hour later than it should have been.
But still... grumble, grumble...