Carrie Hope Fletcher #2 The Carrie Hope Fletcher Show

Catsheldon · Jul 24, 2020

She also said the book is finished in one of the stories, so that’s 10,000 words in edits? With the notes from her editor that is fairly easy to fix. Yeah it’s frustrating to lose the work but it’s fixing a few words/sentences here and there, it’s not like she lost a full chunk of story.
I’m 30 and I’ve never in my life *touch wood* lost anything on my laptop/computer while I was writing. Once I got an idea out I would click save and carry on. The fact that she wasted the time of an apple support worker because she didn’t save her work is ridiculous!
On another note, it kind of reminds me of a story Emma Thompson shared on an episode of QI about her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility turning into hieroglyphs on her computer and that she begged Stephen Fry to get it back for her whilst in tears. The panel then joked that Stephen probably just rewrote the whole thing and that Emma would have to give him the Academy Award she won for writing it! Lol

Lilu22 · Jul 24, 2020

I’m sure I’d hate for it to happen to me but I can’t help but laugh at her having a hissy fit over having to rewrite 10,000 words. It’s literally her job and she’s complaining...

pale-blue-monster · Jul 24, 2020

oh the whole losing 10,000 words, It sucks but she’s acting likes it’s the end of the world, it’s not.
She’s rewriting a story isn’t she? So 10,000 words won’t be that hard

I’m being overly harsh I know

nvngwork · Jul 24, 2020

I mean, my job involves a lot of writing, I love my job more than most of my hobbies, yet I would absolutely hate to lose work, and even when you think you are being careful with automatic backups, things like that can happen. I'm not going to blame her for being pissed and it seems like she was backing it up online so she did it right.

NoPlates · Jul 24, 2020

10,000 words is like just 20 pages...like 1/10 of a 200 page book. Why is she this upset lol

lablife54 · Jul 25, 2020

The 10,000 words she lost was for the new book she’s mentioned writing, rather than Into the Spotlight - when she started the Insta Q&A she referred to it as the book that is finished, implying that what she lost was something unfinished.

So yeah, she should have checked her backups, but I can understand being upset at losing that much work (regardless of the quality).

pale-blue-monster · Jul 25, 2020

lablife54 said:
The 10,000 words she lost was for the new book she’s mentioned writing, rather than Into the Spotlight - when she started the Insta Q&A she referred to it as the book that is finished, implying that what she lost was something unfinished.

So yeah, she should have checked her backups, but I can understand being upset at losing that much work (regardless of the quality).

Ah okay fair enough

Tbh I would upset too. If she's using word, you can access documents that have been deleted I believe?

notjust_vanilla · Jul 25, 2020

Razzmatazz said:
She's wrote how many books and still doesn't know to back up her work?

The first thing I bought going into my first year of uni was a portable hard drive... you never risk it when it comes to important documents

anjschuyler · Jul 25, 2020

honestly, as another novelist, i 1) use special software that backs up automatically and tells me when it's full 2) am manic about saving and saving and saving.
losing 10K is a nightmare, especially if you're at the point where you're really getting into the story.

PamSlams · Jul 25, 2020

Poothe said:
As usual Carrie acts like the first person who ever lost a document she was working on. Seriously, if that’s the biggest problem she has at the moment then she’s doing pretty well. 10000 words of her crappy writing isn’t the end of world. So what does she do? A Q&A! And interestingly at the very same time the rest of the Heathers cast are trying to fundraisee. Coincidence much? She can’t bear to have the spotlight on anyone else for two minutes.

oh hell, this is totally not on! I’ve unfollowed her on everything long time ago so I didn’t know. So not only she didn’t join the Heathers fundraising, didn’t help promote it, she did her own stuff, doing the exact same thing, on the same platform, and at the same time???

that’s just vile. A new level of nastiness even for her.

DietGossip · Jul 25, 2020

NoPlates said:
10,000 words is like just 20 pages...like 1/10 of a 200 page book. Why is she this upset lol

I've just written almost 10k for my thesis I'd be literally devastated if I lost it.

(not that I will cause both of my supervisors have had copies of it but still)

Lolly505 · Jul 25, 2020

She must on the wind up, surely?

nrs264 · Jul 25, 2020

does she, and people creating this show tbh, think a sulky doc martin wearing Cinderella is really different or edgy? theres nothing less edgy than someone trying to be edgy

It's like a child trying desperately hard for attention and to show how different and original they are...when in fact they're not doing anything different to many others

anjschuyler · Jul 25, 2020

Lolly505 said:
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She must on the wind up, surely?

the lack of originality is astounding!!!!

PocketRLocket · Jul 25, 2020

Travelling Light Theatre Company created a musical version of Cinderella back in 2012 which has has multiple productions and toured during Christmas seasons across the country. It was also nominated for an Olivier Award and got a 4 star review in the Guardian.

It's a really fun, joyful, subversive show! Brilliant original music played entirely by an onstage band who double up as actors. Cinderella is reimagined to be tomboy-ish and feisty, she's kind but she's tough. Her costume includes a bowler hat, a oversized dark dress and...doc martens. The marketing image:

Her doc martens are a big part of the show/her character. So it strikes me as so weird when the ALW Cinderella are marketing their show as "Cinderella as you've NEVER seen her before", when a popular and respected show in Theatreland has done something similar (and probably better) very recently.

AdoraDelano · Jul 25, 2020

Cinderella just feels like its going to be a huge flop.

Margo_Channing · Jul 25, 2020

AdoraDelano said:
Cinderella just feels like its going to be a huge flop.

If it's going to be round the corner from frozen a highly anticipated musical especially now that the Broadway version is closed

Razzmatazz · Jul 25, 2020

AdoraDelano said:
Cinderella just feels like its going to be a huge flop.

I can't see it going the same way as the spice girls musical Viva Forever.

Buttercup1234 · Jul 25, 2020

nah, she didn't "lose" her work. She's massively behind on deadlines, as per usual because her lazy ass always is, with every "book" she writes, so she's making this public show of "oh no!!! I lost my work!!!" to make it more believable to whoever is holding her to account and is probably getting just as sick of her crap.

Why doesn't she write on GoogleDocs or something that auto-saves every few seconds? There areso many effortless ways to backup as you go, if she's lost anything, it's down to sheer laziness and carelessness.

PocketRLocket · Jul 25, 2020

Buttercup1234 said:
nah, she didn't "lose" her work. She's massively behind on deadlines, as per usual because her lazy ass always is, with every "book" she writes, so she's making this public show of "oh no!!! I lost my work!!!" to make it more believable to whoever is holding her to account and is probably getting just as sick of her crap.

Why doesn't she write on GoogleDocs or something that auto-saves every few seconds? There areso many effortless ways to backup as you go, if she's lost anything, it's down to sheer laziness and carelessness.

I was going to say this...I swear this has happened before when she's writing a book. She "loses her work" and "cries all night". If it happened once you'd think she'd be more cautious. I write everything on Google docs so it all autosaves even if my harddrive dies.