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Feeling Immediately Better

6/11/2018

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November is my birthday month. I would appreciate it if you would help me celebrate by spreading some light in the world. Join my Have a Heart Campaign team on Kiva, or find a charity that speaks to you and donate.
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Good morning, Readers!
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I love this oil painting by deviantart.com user Irbeus. I've been obsessed with this kind of iconography for a while now. the artist has tonnes more great pieces. Click the image to check them out.
It's been three days since I decided to get back to training.  Despite struggling to wake up this morning, I am feeling better today than I was at the beginning of the week; particularly about how I feel in my own body.  It's something that I've struggled with since I can remember, and I find it eases when I'm working out regularly.

I dragged myself out of bed, late, and got to the gym, late.  Still, I got there, and I worked out for about half an hour.  Unlike Monday, the heavy weights station had room for me, so I got to do some of that this morning.  Not well, and not nearly at the level I was at before I took the break, but I did it.

And I did it all with a pinched nerve in my back.  It's still pinched.  I can't seem to get it fixed.  Maybe this afternoon when I go for a swim.  On the bright side, it hurt so much that I didn't even feel the pain in my left shoulder that has been there for going on a year now and hindering my progress.  So, there's that.

Right now, I'm happy sipping my morning coffee and letting my mind wander.  I lack the energy to really control that wandering, so today might just be a day for day-dreaming.  Day-dreaming, incidentally, is integral to my writing process.  I usually solve tricky character and story issues by just letting my mind wander about the worlds I create.  It's great.  A note, though, to not let your day-dreaming become the entirety of your writing process.  You still have to eventually sit in front of the computer and write.

Yesterday, quite late in the day, I managed to reach another two thousand words and finished two scenes.  Outcast is now roughly 15% complete.  I am feeling much better at this second attempt at a rewrite.  There is an unexpected hero that has emerged from the new cast of characters, and I'm quite impressed with him.  I think I'll keep him.  For a while at least.

Tonight, I begin live streaming Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. Now, the Wild Hunt is one of my favourites from Celtic myth, and is actually a motif that runs through many, many mythologies; European and not.  That's an aside.  I doubt the game has much to do with the mythology I am familiar with.  I have been cautioned that I will die a lot, and to play on easy rather than normal.  I think I might start off at normal and see how I do, but I will definitely be upping that autosave regularity.  I'm excited to get stuck into it.

Right, I am now off to go do writerly things.  Like day-dream.

​Ciao!
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