This Post Brought to You by the Gray Screen of Death

Diana Pharaoh FrancisDiana Pharaoh Francis

I was going to post a really cool blog about writing a multiple point of view novel. I was. Really. And then . . . The Gray Screen of Death. You might be more familiar with the Blue Screen of Death. I was. I had never met the Gray Screen. Until today.

I was happily working away this a.m. on my three-month old iMac when this gray curtain descended from top to bottom–you know, like a the curtain descending at the theater. The one that says the show’s over. This little box popped up repeating in many languages that I needed to restart. So I shut it down and then . . . It wouldn’t start again. Nothing. Nada. Dead as a doornail. As roadkill. As that skunk my dog got ahold of a couple of years ago. As those tomatoes in the back of the fridge that have [...]

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