Today has been a solid day of pretty great progress. Even if it didn't start out the greatest. I slept in a lot later than I have been lately, which yay for more sleep but boo to less hours to work and my little alone time I usually get in the early morning. It also really throws me off and makes me feel like I has missed a huge chunk of the day, even if I sleep in to ten instead of nine. And for some reason I was waking up between 7:45 am and 8:30 am for a couple days in a row. So sleeping until almost noon feels so weird.
I also woke up super sore with a headache, which sucks. But, I was still able to continue the daily exercise routine that I've been doing every day for like three or four days? Four days! It's nothing too crazy just some stretching and yoga and then ten minutes either doing some targeted exercise or one the treadmill. That's it, with my disabilities I can't do more than that yet. Also if I do too much too quickly, I get burnt out just as quickly and stop doing the healthy thing completely.
This time I'm trying to be more loose with it while still being accountable in making sure I do some exercise every day, just like I do some writing every day. I try to make it at least 1,000 words a day but don't kick myself if I only get 600, and celebrate for the days like today where it is 1,500 words. Or those rare super binge days where I get 4,000 - 8,000 words in a single day. But those are when I get gripped by a story and is pretty rare. Like super rare. And is really more of the times when I have a maladaptive daydream that I want to type out.
But I also started drafting another story called Anything For You Boys. Did I mention that one already? I literally can't remember because I added it to that word tracker website too and had to write a little description about it. But if I didn't mention it, it's a single mother and her two young kids in a really remote part of Wyoming in the 1820s. She is being hunted by a supernatural beast that already killed her husband three and a half years ago. It recounts her time fighting the creature and fixing her house and the kids growing until this final night and final fight.
So, yeah lol, I don't know how to transition from that. I like the story a lot and just thought that it would be a really cool thing to write. It has to do a lot with themes of like mothers doing whatever they have to do to protect their families and grief and having to parent while dealing with grief and depression AND this creature that's trying to kill her, her children, and her farm animals.
I wrote the first scene and it was decent but WAY shorter than I thought it would be. I did write it like super bare bones and just what I thought it would be best to show how the mom, Miranda, acts, how the boys behave and their dynamic, and a flash of the beast that is the main villain of my story. And we start at the end with the big final fight, then like halfway we go back in time to set up the whole story and who the people are and why we give a fuck about them. Its a fun type of story telling that I haven't tried before so it feels new and gives me the happy brain chemicals it craves. It also feels a little clunky and harder to write because I don't have a good grasp of how Miranda talks and acts yet so it feels harder to flow with. Not like N, who I thoroughly know and have been exploring his mindset and personality for months and months now.
I also got bored and started making a mini sketchbook by hand. Which is one of my favorite craft things to do but I'm trying to sew it with some acrylic yarn that I got for free with my new loom (yay!) and it's very slippery. So I might have to glue it since the knot has slipped a few times. Speaking of the loom, I'm super scared on starting now! It arrived and I didn't think it was going to be already strung and I wanted to use the little seperater thingy but you can't use it with it strung. And I don't want to restring it because I don't think I will have enough yarn to fully string it again. But then again maybe I should restring it because I want to make something smaller anyways. Okay see that? Problem solved and I'll try it tomorrow.
So, in conclusion, today was quietly awesome. A good resting while working kind of day. Where I made progress but kept things pretty relaxed and tried to be gentle with myself since I have been doing A LOT over the last week.
Oh! I bit the bullet and signed up for that Heart Breathings discord. I'm a little nervous about like putting myself out there too much but I will work in it more when November comes and we are all doing the writing challenge together.
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