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And Immune System Goes to Crap

01 Thursday Aug 2013

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I really, really can’t believe that it’s been so long since I’ve been on here. And believe me, it’s been just about as long since I really touched my WIP. Well, not counting two days ago. I ended up getting sick with Strep. And then taking a little bit to actually get into the doctor for them to diagnosis it, and that lead to them not believing it was strep because the quick culture came back negative and my throat while looking irritated looked fine. Four days later, my long culture is positive. (Which is what I said would happen the moment I stepped into the doctor’s office.)

I’ve gotten semi back into writing. Slowly. It doesn’t help that in two days I’ll be headed to the middle of no where for a week long festival that I run. Doesn’t add up to a lot of down time to write, but I am hoping to put the old pen to paper and see if I can’t get a little bit written while I’m there. And my phone has a talk to text feature that I can probably utilize to get it transcribed a little faster once I’m back.

Wish me luck on trying to catch up on my word count, because I’m so far behind I’m gonna cry if I think about it.

And So It Begins…

09 Tuesday Jul 2013

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So this is going to be a fairly short post.

The good? I started writing yesterday. And I’m not gonna lie, it felt good to get the words out. I’m never sure if it’s great, or if it’ll keep through the rough draft edits, but words out are words out and I can expand or compress later. I really need to stop worrying about the future of the draft and focus on getting the draft actually out of my head.

The bad? It wasn’t nearly as much as I was hoping to write. Though it’s a start. A single step in the right direction. I just need to make sure I follow that step with more throughout the week.

I will say part of not hitting my goal was because I started to not feel well, and that’s continued into today. I’m wondering if I should have stayed home with how I’m feeling, but with two hours left once I’m off the little break, it’s already too late to do much but tough it out and crash on my face when I get home.

I am looking to get more words out, by tooth or nail tonight. Though quite honestly I may take an offline approach and notebook the word count from bed once home.

An Almost New Start

08 Monday Jul 2013

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My weekend was… well interesting. We got out to the trailer and I was able to do a massive amount less than I wanted to. Usually the schedule is we get out, mow the grass so there are less mosquitoes, dust and clean the trailer a little, put beds together, and just… rest. Which usually involves a movie after dinner and then me retiring to my section of the trailer to read/write/play Animal Crossing/etc.

That’s not exactly how it went down when we got there.  For starters our canopy ended up bulging and stretching because it caught water and just kept it instead of letting the water slide right off. But most importantly, there was a tree down over our back fence. Thankfully it missed both the storage shed and our canopy. The owner mentioned it to us when we stopped in before heading back to our spot, and had mentioned that she’d have guys out there to get it done that weekend sometime. Well, needless to say my parents couldn’t just let it sit. We spent most of Friday afternoon/night trimming all the smaller branches off of it and settling them into a pile that the owner could haul away and then thanks to our neighbor loaning a small electric chain saw, we ended up cutting a good chunk of it back, almost to the fence. Which, while we did end up doing the work the owner was supposed to do, we got some good firewood out of it. Not that it’ll be useable until next year, but firewood.

And once that was done, and we sweet talked our neighbors into mowing for us later that weekend so we could leave, we went home. And then spent that afternoon sprawled and lounging at the house because zomg tired from being up since 6am Sat morning. And Sunday wasn’t any better. Though I did figure out approximately how far I’m behind on my word count. And the numbers ain’t pretty.

My original goal was about 667 a day. Averaging that up to 700 words a day, I should have had 18900 by today done.  I have 2000. See what I mean about not pretty? My goal, starting today, is to average between 700 and 2000 words a day so that come July 31 I’ll be caught up.

And that offer to accept prompts to get more juices flowing in the original work direction still stands.