Progress notes: 4th October, 2006

New words: 2.056
Total words: 69,041
Reason for stopping: Out of energy.Exercise : 30 minutes walking.
Other work: Nothing. Yes, still.
Reading: Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Chosen.Still hampered by illness – this time in the form of unrelenting nausea. I went and purchased some over the counter drugs which helped a bit. I’m reluctant to grow dependent upon them, for I know you can get rebound nausea.

Note to self – buy some crystallised ginger. Mints help some, but need to be consumed almost continuously.

I’m not really surprised – the poor body has been through a lot, withdrawing from two drugs. I suspect the nausea has a lot to do with one of them in particular. At least it means that it should pass. Eventually. The really annoying part is that the drug that I could take to ease this I’m allergic to. Life has a wry sense of humour sometimes.

I’m surprised that I got any work done today, to be honest. I forced myself to do some activity because the muscles were beginning to seize up in all-too-familiar ways. Lesson to all writers – you need exercise, as much as you need to read and write. The human machine doesn’t work well otherwise. Ditto to eating generally well.

Amusingly, the writing went smoothly today for the first time in a while. Things even got somewhat on track – I have the bones of what the story should become. You know what I say about life’s sense of humour? I was having one of those days yesterday when all I wanted to do was forget about writing forever. Heh.

My next task for this week (apart from the review that’s now well overdue, the overdue monthly blood test, the gift that needs to be purchased and the packages that need to be mailed) is to put together another bunch of queries for Shaede. It’s actually not me putting it off for fear or rejection this time – it’s me getting caught up in other things.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

Progress notes: 4th October, 2006

New words: 2.056
Total words: 69,041
Reason for stopping: Out of energy.Exercise : 30 minutes walking.
Other work: Nothing. Yes, still.
Reading: Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Chosen.Still hampered by illness – this time in the form of unrelenting nausea. I went and purchased some over the counter drugs which helped a bit. I’m reluctant to grow dependent upon them, for I know you can get rebound nausea.

Note to self – buy some crystallised ginger. Mints help some, but need to be consumed almost continuously.

I’m not really surprised – the poor body has been through a lot, withdrawing from two drugs. I suspect the nausea has a lot to do with one of them in particular. At least it means that it should pass. Eventually. The really annoying part is that the drug that I could take to ease this I’m allergic to. Life has a wry sense of humour sometimes.

I’m surprised that I got any work done today, to be honest. I forced myself to do some activity because the muscles were beginning to seize up in all-too-familiar ways. Lesson to all writers – you need exercise, as much as you need to read and write. The human machine doesn’t work well otherwise. Ditto to eating generally well.

Amusingly, the writing went smoothly today for the first time in a while. Things even got somewhat on track – I have the bones of what the story should become. You know what I say about life’s sense of humour? I was having one of those days yesterday when all I wanted to do was forget about writing forever. Heh.

My next task for this week (apart from the review that’s now well overdue, the overdue monthly blood test, the gift that needs to be purchased and the packages that need to be mailed) is to put together another bunch of queries for Shaede. It’s actually not me putting it off for fear or rejection this time – it’s me getting caught up in other things.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.