Can’t say today was easy. I walked in circles (literally) because pacing helps me generate ideas, talked to myself out loud to ask important questions, looked at my map and drew a few circles on it to identify story issues… And then I went back to the line-for-scene outline and managed to come up with… Continue reading Today I studied the map, asked WHY… made good progress on OUTLINE 5… figured out why YESTERDAY crashed…
Category: intermittent fasting
Unscheduled Day Off … ugh!
If it’s been a while since you’ve done a longer fast, you forget. Intermittent fasting, where you maintain a no-snacks rule and eat at around six or seven every evening is dead simple. You adapt, you don’t feel hungry or deprived, and every day you have plenty of energy to do everything you need. Longer… Continue reading Unscheduled Day Off … ugh!
No jury duty, 1588 words, and am now over 20% through Book 3 of 5 (also… fasting…)
I’m grateful for writing, and for being well into a story that holds my attention and makes me need to know what happens next. Having been fasting since Sunday night, I’ve now had nothing but coffee, water, and vitamins for long enough that my hindbrain has started taking action against me. My legs keep picking… Continue reading No jury duty, 1588 words, and am now over 20% through Book 3 of 5 (also… fasting…)
Good wordcount, a good concept… but, jury duty willing, tomorrow I’ll be doing a fair amount of fixing
Yesterday’s jury duty message was, boiled down, “Call again today.” So at 5:30 tonight, I’ll find out whether I’ll be working tomorrow or not. Meanwhile, instead of my daily short fast (from the night before until around 4 or 5 PM, when I eat my daily meal) — I’m doing a long fast. For folks… Continue reading Good wordcount, a good concept… but, jury duty willing, tomorrow I’ll be doing a fair amount of fixing
1286 words, and a nice twist in the story.
I got my 1250 words with a few extra today, though it took longer than three hours, and there are a fair list of things I didn’t get done… and that I’ll have to do tomorrow, so there might not be any (or many) words Thursday. What I got was hard going, but I like… Continue reading 1286 words, and a nice twist in the story.
Trauma, memory, and my main character – 1283 words
I got some of my favorite words in the series this morning. (1283 of them, in fact.) My MC (main character) had a BAD morning a couple chapters back, and finally made it back home in this chapter — worse for wear, but not as much so as one would have reason to expect. She’s… Continue reading Trauma, memory, and my main character – 1283 words
Beat the headache. 1278 new words, and a good twist.
First, the headache, because it was the biggest obstacle I faced this morning. Over the holidays, we did an intentional, planned drift away from keto so that we could have some fun foods. Pies, you know, and cookies, and stuff like baked potatoes and stuffing. We hadn’t done this before, but we hadn’t dealt with… Continue reading Beat the headache. 1278 new words, and a good twist.
