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A Down Day…

24 Wednesday Jul 2019

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Though my night seemed better I did end up taking migraine medication this morning.  It has been cloudy, then sunny, then cloudy again today.  My back has also been really sore today and I think there was some rain or storms in the forecast but who knows.  I spent a great deal of time sitting at work yesterday.

So I watched a couple of recorded Christmas movies this morning while I edited with the cats throwing me looks… not sure if that’s related to what was on TV or the fact that I was sitting with that pink binder, again.  Oh mom!

So now, this is my poor baby who is finding editing to be as exhausting as I am now…

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I know exactly how he feels!  I’m halfway through and, honestly, I’m hoping this is the last.  I can’t believe some of what I’m finding… it looks like I was highlighting to enter edits but was taking words out… and, for, what, if… and so on.  I am having to reinsert these words to make sense of sentences which is only adding to the issues.  I’m also not doing a lot of major repairs anymore which is a good sign.

Editing is really tough.  Something that could go on and on if not reeled in.  I’m trying to avoid that trap but when I was writing, I did tell you how much I wished I could vomit the story out and I believe that’s what happened.  Details were lost or forgotten and that was found on the first round of edits.  Then the second round of edits found me adding a section with a few more items that were found because I could imagine this house with this amazing attic where someone may have hidden items.  Now I’m on Round three because, if nothing else, all the newly added sections still need to be edited.  It’s also tough because you need to step back from the story and try to look at it from the perspective of the reader and what they might want to read and not read.

Whenever I get there, I need to do a proofread for spelling, grammar, sentence structure and I hope that’s next!

I hope to get for a swim tonight… it’s 86 I was just informed… works for me… maybe movement in the water will help loosen up the binds that hold my spine hostage!

 

 

 

Hot, Hot, Hot!

20 Saturday Jul 2019

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Today wasn’t a very busy day, for the most part.  Laundry and then I left here about 3:30 for my niece’s 6th birthday party.  I stopped on the way… my daughter is house-sitting right now at a small farm and she wanted me to see it.  Then I went to the birthday party which was FUN, FUN, FUN but HOT! HOT! HOT!

I also had to go say hello to my two favourite ponies before I went to my parents’ and fell into the pool… except I think the pool had to be about 87 or 88 degrees and did nothing to cool me off.  I came home and went in the pool here and it was 83… MUCH better and now, believe it or not, I’m under the blanket on the couch watching…

CHRISTMAS MOVIES!

I posted my Title dilemma on the Word Nerds Unite Facebook page and I have been getting a lot of suggestions and I really like some of them.  They seem to be picking out words that I wouldn’t have initially and so I’m adding those to my list.  Of course the list is growing which, at the same time, is not a help to me because it will make deciding even more difficult but will hopefully put me on the right track for choosing something that will POP!

My favourites so far are: Secrets at the Bridge; Hidden Secrets; Shattered Secrets and Jealous Secrets.

I need to decide soon but I have also started editing again, just not tonight because after all the activities in the heat my sleepiness has set in which may or may not be preceding a migraine.

So I will end it here and say… until tomorrow!

It’s Back! It’s New!

29 Saturday Jun 2019

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So this new idea hit me so suddenly today that I had to run with it.  It was so easy to flesh out the premise and I think I have even given it a title, or at least a working title… Leap of Faith!

I’m returning to my romance-paranormal “roots” if you can call it that!  I sat with my notebook and wrote eight pages which rolled into Chapter Four!  I didn’t want to stop, I’m at that point of wishing I could vomit out the story again but I was also doing real-life things like laundry.  You know those little things.

I guess it’s not bad on my first full day of my vacation time.  I have to admit it was exciting to have it strike this quickly!

I just wish that this damn canker, ear pain and all the rest would go away!  I think that the canker is sitting on the nerve causing the ear pain and the last two days jaw pain which I think has been causing the headaches.  My neck and back haven’t let up but sitting and writing helps to reduce the severity for a while.

I am so excited about going back to the paranormal… reincarnation and probably a little bit of fantasy… I’m bring two people together who can’t be… and that’s all I’m going to say.

The other great thing is… Camp NaNoWriMo!  Camp runs this month!  If you’ve ever wanted to try NaNo but were never sure about writing 50,000 words in 30 days this could be your chance because YOU get to set the word count.  So you can set it at 10,000, 12,000, 20,000… any number you want!  I have set it at 25,000 like I usually do when I do the camps because summer happens so i just never know what’s going to happen and if I’ll be able to manage 50,000… besides, I can always up the number!

So join me!  Joint the thousands of us who are taking the challenge.  Find a story starter or a what-if scenario and get writing… it starts Monday!

Vacation has begun…

28 Friday Jun 2019

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And I’m feeling incredibly depressed… I’m trying to figure out why though because I’m on vacation.

Why? Why? Why?

I haven’t written or done any editing in days?

I am now done work for a week so perhaps I’m just letting it all go?

I’ve been in a lot of pain this week… back pain, neck pain, repeated headaches as well as a large canker on the underside of my tongue that is not healing and rests on a nerve that, I believe, is causing me to feel pain in my jaw and my right ear.  Like I needed the last two with all of the other pain?

I started to feel this way around the time the rain started?

Maybe I need to write myself as a character in order to figure it all out.

Tomorrow I have a couple of choices… I could go to the trailer and visit my parents for the day, or I could do that on Sunday… either day the weather looks better at home than it does there.

I guess I’m not getting any of my assignments so when that will happen is beyond me… I wanted them so that I had the extra time to work on them… I even reached out to both and have had no response in return, again.

I will just carry on with my own writing then… no complaints there!

I’m extremely tired, have been all day… you know you’re tired when you try to put your make-up on in the wrong order.

Until tomorrow!

Not a single word…

26 Wednesday Jun 2019

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Up until now I haven’t written a single word today; in fact I haven’t looked at anything writing related today.  It seems that I am in need of these days to regroup and I don’t know why exactly because two weeks ago I had no issue.  Last week I had to force myself just to do some editing on Wednesday but was out of the starting gate at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday.

I have still not been feeling great.  Headache came back, still have this canker and sore ear and this afternoon I had to stop part way down the stairs as pain shot through my back.

It’s also hot… this is fabulous and I will never complain but, as we all know, it’s hard when the weather jumps from 22-23 degrees to almost 30 overnight and we aren’t entirely prepared.

I hooked up the air conditioner upstairs this afternoon so that maybe my sleep will be better?  Maybe I will end up headache free tomorrow?

Tomorrow I have a few things I want to do before I reach my vacation starting at 4:30 on Friday… just tidy up the work space/dining room and prepare a manuscript for a reader.

I will have lots of writing to do and I do want to sink my pencil into my manuscript and start my proofreading at the same time as I start on some articles that I don’t have titles for yet… and hope I get really soon!

I’m going keep this short as it’s time for me to go jump in the pool!

Make it Stop!

25 Tuesday Jun 2019

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Does anyone want to take my pain away?  Just for a while?

Today was basically a repeat of yesterday… I spent most of the day trying to fight off a headache while my neck pain worsened.  I wore my heels today to ease the back pain, at least while I was wearing them.  The canker on the underside of my tongue and the ear pain are something else though!

Today was one of those days I was pretty fed up with being holed up at work especially when the sun is shining outside.  The great thing was, the sun stayed out.  I ended up coming home and just trying to take it easy before I finally went over for a swim!  I’m glad I did that… it was heavenly! I then came home, filled the tub with the hottest water I could stand and let the heat seep into my sore muscles.

I think things are starting to settle down and I’m hoping to go to bed early and get a good sleep.  Last night was a good sleep but I had to wake up.  Tomorrow morning I don’t have to wake up.  My alarm is off for the next two days!

Tomorrow evening there is a free salsa dance event at our city square… I’d love to go but I want to see how I feel first.  I was hoping to not go alone and I think people I know are going… I should go on Facebook and find out.  At 6:30 the lesson starts.  I would probably go for that and a bit more but then come back home.

I could call it research because I would love to learn to dance… ballroom over salsa but, hey, salsa could be fun too!  It would be amazing to add a little something to my repertoire for a new novel… a title like The Dance Class!

Never think that something out there can’t be used for what you write!  It’s always possible to use what you’ve learned and bring it to life so that a character brings that experience to someone else.

I’m excited that I got this posted!  It’s definitely late enough but it’s up!

I feel awful…

24 Monday Jun 2019

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Today was a day that is difficult to define!  I had a no-show and a cancellation which worked to my advantage for a few other things but I started to not feel well about mid-afternoon and it has just proceeded downhill since then.

The thing is though, I heard from that long-term blog person who asked if I’m up for another assignment or four or five!  Ummm… YES!  Of course!  Plus I should be getting an email from the paper for assignments there so this is supposed to be exciting, exciting, EXCITING and I don’t know what I want to remove more… my head or my spine.

I did try… I went for a walk and a swim and taken two doses of migraine meds.  I’ve used my oils and I’ve had no relief.  I don’t know if my fatigue is from waking up at 3:30 this morning and spending more than an hour awake or if it’s from the migraine.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to the multiple writing projects… they are paid projects and anything will help right now as you know!

Besides… how exciting is it to have multiple writing assignments!  Dream. Come. True!

I wish it would just storm… I think that’s why I’m feeling the way I am… maybe my night is playing a role but if the thunderstorms rolled in all this might let up… I hate storms so my requesting one means that the pain is severe!

I will call it quits so I can put the laptop away and just rest my eyes for a while with the Jays game on.

Keeping you posted!

3/4 Finished

22 Saturday Jun 2019

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I am at the end of an extremely long day.  Lately I have been going to bed early and barely being able to stay awake for even a half hour before I almost pass out into a deep sleep for a few hours.  By morning I’ve usually been awake two, three or four times and probably one of those extends into an hour or longer.

I have also been waking in more pain than usual lately too… my back and my neck have both been acting up on me.

Today was productive with laundry, a trip to the barn to spend some time with those beautiful and crazy ponies and even adding a puppy-sitting session in, followed by a swim, all around managing to get editing done up to page 195… 60 pages, or 1/4 more to go!  Those edits have been entered as well so not long now!

I was really hoping to get it all done by the end of this weekend because I do have my second story for the paper to return to as it’s been all but forgotten in the time I’ve been working on my novel.

My phone had a number of messages on it yesterday when I got home, one being from the paper!  They have been very busy, understandably.  I did call him this morning, even though it’s Saturday and we had a good chat!

Since my head is starting to hurt, again, I’m going to end it here.  I do plan on, though it never happened last week, to getting a post up in the morning but that time seems to get consumed incredibly quickly!

Got Energy?

11 Tuesday Jun 2019

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If you have any energy can you spare some?  I’m beat!

The last several days my low back pain has been gradually increasing as has my neck pain.  Last evening I was barely able to climb the stairs.  Every one of the thirteen stairs going up felt like someone was pushing a dagger into my low back.  In all my time with back pain I don’t recall stairs being a major issue.  I think the neck is exacerbated by stress, as always.

Today I managed to start typing what I had handwritten on Sunday and I’m already at 1,100+ words which means MANY words will end up on the chopping block.  I have to work within 1,500 words.  I can do it but I think I needed to develop more backstory for my character and then be able to go from there.

After all these years putting words on the chopping block isn’t easy.  I think most of us feel like every word we have put on the page has some meaning and we don’t want to take the scissors to any of them in case our message loses the meaning.

I know it’s something I have done repeatedly and though it’s not easy, it gets easier if nothing else.  You learn to say the same thing with fewer words.  The one thing I use all the time is the Synonym feature in Word.  It allows me to click on a word and it lists the alternatives… I sometimes have to use this as I tend to search for words that my 40+ year old brain doesn’t want to push to the surface.

That’s another story and, perhaps, I’ll save it for another post!

I am a big fan of NCIS and there was a post on Facebook about Ziva’s return in the fall and I wanted to reach into the article and shake out all the edits that it required.  NCIS will be in Season 17 in the fall and the writer, at one point, referred to the new Season 7.  CRINGE! Of course there were plenty of other errors and I had to stop reading.

So go find something to edit, whether it’s yours or it belongs to someone else.

Too Tired…

10 Monday Jun 2019

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As you know, I spent my weekend suffering migraines that seemed to take forever to get rid of.  Yesterday I still managed to handwrite about four pages of something new but I realized today that I was supposed to be working from that story starter I had posted about something being found in a pocket… so, I’m almost back at square one!  I knew I would be doing a lot of cuts but had hoped that I would reach the “pocket point” much sooner than I actually did.

Today was an incredibly tiring day with people going on a cruise and someone leaving tomorrow… those are the people you want to look at and ask what’s the point?  Why are you here?  

It seemed the day dragged on with, yes, fatigue, but no desire to do anything more than be at home on the couch curled up with a really good movie with the curtains closed on the disgustingly dreary day outside that has just become more and more overcast as the day has gone on and rained off and on and off and on and off and on.

That has not helped the mood or the aches and pains but I haven’t had a headache today though I wish someone would massage the knots out of my neck.

Perhaps it would be a great evening for a glass of wine as well to help me relax.

So I will take my leave and go take advantage of the couch being empty and find that good movie… maybe Book Club or maybe Mamma Mia.  Something fun to try and boost the spirits.

 

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