Happy Wednesday All, The editing I did Tuesday was fun. It was because I loved watching my male main character in some of the scenes. I almost like him as much as I do "my" beast. "My" Beast was the Beast from a re-telling of Beauty & The Beast that I wrote some time ago. This is a spectacular lesson in backing up one's work: My retelling was from the Beast's point of view and it was kind of a psychological journey in one sense. I pulled out a lot of the Beast's emotional and temperamental side. I loved him dearly and there were parts that I absolutely adored (particularly, I think page 80 where he almost kisses her--forgetting he's a beast of course--but she pushes him away). Well, my computer crashed and took a good chunk of that finished manuscript with it. I had maybe a little over 100 pages saved on disc, but I hadn't backed it up. Now I have a computer that doesn't accept those types of discs (the old small A drive one...