Killing keyboards

It seems to the 70 thousand odd words of my latest offering in the book stakes have been too much for my keyboard. It gives me all sorts of gibberish which makes getting on with my new story - a murder mystery this time - frustrating. Missing words abound. Spaces don't appear where they should. One letter is repeated, at speed, for a whole line until I can stop the wretched thing. The first time it happened I had half a page of ffffffffffs!

This must be the third keyboard I've killed. But then, when you think of all the 16 stories I have written with them, most with more than one draft and all of them over 70k words and one as long as 120k, then it isn't surprising that a £12 keyboard gives up the ghost.

So I have taken the plunge and ordered a new, rather higher quality item. It is several times the price of the ones I have been using. 

So, I am up to 4,000 words on the the new story. Jess and Rory are getting to grips with the murder of Fintan Balfe, leader of a Ceilidh band.