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Mar 13

Get Down with the Sickness

Ugh. Been, literally, sick all week. Something crawled into my chest Sunday and for the past five days, I’ve felt as if I were drowning in my body. Having Chest Plague(tm) really sucks. Been alternating between thinking that “breathing is hard, let’s go to sleep” and “being alive is hard, let’s go to sleep”. As such, the bed’s been my primary residence this whole week.

I dislike getting sick. Most of the time, when I do feel a cold coming on, I zap it pretty quickly. As an asthmatic, it’s Really Not Good(tm) to let something into the chest. It’s like getting dumped in the ocean and being forced to tread water. Plague’s not only zapped my energy but stolen my smart brain cells as well.

Today is the first day where, despite coughing and zapped energy, that I feel normal. So I’m going to slowly reintegrate myself back into human society. I’ll try not to over do it though, as I can still barely wander around without my chest wanting to spew a lung.

Ugh. My week in review after the cut…

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Dec 08

Late Night Musings

I couldn’t sleep last night. My mind was teeming with ideas (writing and otherwise). So I wandered downstairs and did some work on some projects I’d like to finish before the holidaze. And wouldn’t you know it, inspiration hit.

It struck me while I was thinking of the current novel-revision-in-progress. The first novel I’d like to see published. I was thinking about the conflict (or lack there of) that was in the novel. You see, the tension is more internal, and not only that but I don’t present it in a way that a reader would know there’s tension. I know I need to get some conflict in there, to raise the stakes, but I wasn’t sure how or what I needed to do.

Thankfully, my muse gave me a pretty nifty resolution, in the form of a new scene to write. I’ve also known that I’ll be needing to write a bit more in the book, to lengthen the middle but I wasn’t really settled on what to do. So last night I jotted down some notes about how our intrepid heros meet a living representative of the plague they’re trying to save a world from. In the form of a dragon. A misty plague dragon.

I’m excited. Here’s hoping that this inspiration helps me work on the book.

Read More 0 Comments   |   Posted by innowen on December 8, 2008   |  

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