I’m pretty surprised I’ve gotten this far. I have written at least an hour every day for the last 2 weeks. I don’t know if I have ever done that before, maybe back when I did NaNo in 2013 or 2014. One of my self-definitions is that I lack discipline, but maybe it’s time to change that label because I’ve not only done this but I’ve also been dieting for a last 3 weeks and lost about 8lbs. I still have about 10 lb to lose to get back to my pre-leg breaking weight. Weighing less and continuing physical therapy will hopefully get me off using a cane in the next few months. Hey, there is another thing where I’m pretty damn disciplined, I’ve done P.T at least once a day almost every day for a year, many days I manage twice. I also got my first yes.fit medal this week for finishing a 22 mile race, sadly it took 10 months because when I started it last July I could only walk about half a mile a day.
On to today’s assignments, which are called the “obstacle course”. Looks like I’m going to be working on lots projects today and timing them. Might be hard to get into a groove, but we’ll see.
10 minutes on the mystery story I started last week.
5-minute sprint, also on the mystery story
So it turns out the timer I’m using only beeps when I’m on that web page because my stopwatch says 50 minutes right now. So I did way more than 5 minutes on the mystery story sprint. I’m going to pause for a minute and go find an egg timer or something. Well, never mind, I don’t appear to have an egg timer, odd I just figured that was something everyone had. I mean, yeah, I never bought one….but you know seemed like something that would just be there…I’ll put the timer up on my other screen, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before.
5 minutes of free writing
Made some notes about the free writing in my notebook for later
5 minutes of “weightlifting” – worked on the outline for the mystery story
5 minutes of “hurdles” I face today, that was pretty cathartic, I like to whine.
10 minutes of cross-training (working on something that isn’t writing, but keeping a notebook nearby to write down thoughts) – I paused my stopwatch for this. I took my afternoon vitamins, had some soup and listened to part of a short story on “Starship Sofa” about living under the authority of Grays (classic bigged headed, flying saucer, mutilate cows and put things up your butt aliens). I didn’t have any thoughts that I wanted to write down.
10 minutes of meditative writing (I wrote a short poem about aliens, but not about them putting things up my butt)
10 minutes of reflection on the obstacle course exercises
This was a little odd. I’m used to focusing on one project for as long as I possibly can before my brain starts to feel squishy. I sort of power through the scenes, even when that isn’t what I really want to be working on. This was better in that I moved around, mentally. I had lots of thoughts and ideas. But on the other hand, I didn’t get much usable material. I only have about 4 paragraphs on the mystery story, a few ideas jotted down in my notebook and part of a rather poorly written poem. But I might be every more drained than normal. It’s only been about 1.5 hours and I feel like I have been at this all day!
I think maybe this book will help me find my own best ritual for writing, maybe a few of those 5 or 10 minutes things before focusing on my main WIP would be a nice mix for me.
Total time today 1 hour 47 minutes
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