I did something to my shoulder. Ended up with muscle spasms, radiating out from there, down my left arm. Was pretty useless for a couple of days, couldn’t use that hand. I’m currently taking steroids and muscle relaxants. I’ve continued to work on the novel, either doing one-handed typing or gritting my teeth through the […]
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Of course, after I went to bed last night my brain started developing this new short story. I thought for a while I was going to have to get up and write it, but no, I was able to go to sleep. This morning, I had a coughing fit and woke up 30 minutes before
Jay Lake has a post about motivation that I tried responding to a couple of times but decided instead to post about it here, myself. Some of my motivations sound very similar to Jay’s, in that I gave myself permission to succeed. Failure’s easy. That just means you have to work harder, do more, etc.
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I finished reading every chapter of the third novel out loud, as well as incorporating the changes this morning. YAY!!! I’ve already put the first novel through this process. Which means I only have the second novel to do this to. If I can continue at this pace, that is, a chapter a day, I
As ya’ll are probably all too well aware, I’ve been on this 100 day push for the novel. For the last two weeks, I’ve been pushing much harder, going through a chapter a day. I worked all weekend, with practically no time for myself to just sit and putz. (I need putzing and recovery time.)
I like my day job. I do. Some days less than others, but who couldn’t say that? One of the things I like about my day job is that even though I work in the software industry, it runs its releases like a machine. There are only three crunch times throughout the year. They’re the
Still not well. No brain to speak of. However, I’m not going to break my 100 day push. So for my writing tonight, I’m using the Word grammar checker on the third novel for 30 minutes. It’s close to brainless — very little rewriting. However, it isn’t useless. I think the grammar checker can useful
Woke up feeling craptacular this morning. I’m afraid it’s a sinus infection. What is it about Norwescon? Last year I had to cancel because I had strep throat. This year I may have to cancel from a sinus infection. *sigh*
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Uhmm — I’ve pretty much finished all the bulleted points that I had in the outline for the rewrite. I honestly didn’t think I’d get to this point until really close to the end of the 100 days. To say I’m shocked isn’t strong enough. I keep going back and looking at the list, seeing