Daily Log: the back log
I’m writing outside. It’s cool and cloudy. It had been sunny and beautiful for the past several days, while I’d been working. After a very Biblical-feeling seven year drought in Southern California, cloudy days are beautiful days, too. Water falling from the sky is miraculous, cloud-cover and water will heal the scorched earth–it’s good on a free Friday. And will inspire me to get to work on my website.
So exercises: I did push-ups, sit-ups and squats last night and this morning. Did better with Japanese counting during the squats but botched it during sit-ups. I was trying to do a variety of ab exercises since I had seventy to get through and it is at the end of the week. To work my arms better, I am still throwing in ten extra push-ups on my knees.
My goal for push-ups for the black belt test is sixty solid knuckle push-ups on the ground, if need be. Well, dirt would be softer, at least in my back yard, than the Pergo floor. Pergo is this smooth, fake wood stuff. It’s pretty and easy to clean, but less easy on the knuckles than a yoga matte. Sensei wants me to challenge myself. It’s challenging.
I will soon be through Cixin Liu’s short story collection and will then hopefully get back to working on my own book. Ending and shaping the second one in the series and getting it out there would be great. Pick a meaningful, big event in the story and call that the end: that’s what I can do. I’m just not sure exactly where; I had ideas and now I’m doubting them.
I also asked F to to read the earlier draft of my first book, which is only four chapters where the current draft actually ends, and see if she likes the faster-paced original better. One of my DWA friends, CM, liked the original better than the current draft. I am just thinking through what to do with the current draft.
And my timer went off. (Every day, I time these writings. I usually stick to ten minutes.
