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I’m trying to exercise more, mainly so I feel like less of a slug. Lots of people (Orson Scott Card, etc.) recommend exercise for authors on the grounds that it’s hard to force lively prose out of a sluggish, tired body, and it’s true. I may have to buy a copy of The Athlete’s Diary on the grounds that obsessive record-keeping inspires me to greater effort. (You should see the Motivational Spreadsheet of Doom I wrote for the SO and my friend Milly.) Right now it’s a pathetic ten minutes on the exercise bike a day; I hope to gradually bump that up to forty-five minutes, followed by weights.
Um, yeah. I mentioned running here ages ago. That didn’t work out; my knee started calling me names. Alas.
I have several ideas from Dragoncon–I mostly went to writer’s panels this year. One of them is an odd kind of cyberpunk, and I have no idea if it’s going to be a short story or a novel. (Meep! although that would give me an opportunity to use the Motivational Spreadsheet of Doom.) It could get long. Which I suppose is good, either way. I have notes, and will let it percolate. I also contemplated the other novel idea I had lying around my hard drive and made more notes.
I still want to write something for Scalzi’s cliché challenge. I started a draft of something, but… eh. I’ll go reread in a day or so and see what I think–right now I think I would reread and say “Eh.”
I like the Sidekick, but I had to rewrite the php browser detection routine to get this site to work with it. Interestingly, the browser string says it is ProxiWeb/AvantGo. I used to use ProxiWeb on Palm, back before AvantGo bought them. And I haven’t seen whether they support J2ME yet; I keep seeing things that suggest that they will next month. I want Azure!
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I too try to work out, but my knees have been giving me all sorts of trouble for the past few days. I fear I may be becoming one of those people who ache with the changing of the seasons, and I hates it.
Comment by Jennifer Pelland September 19, 2005 @ 12:57 pmGood luck with your clich� piece! I should be getting the “you suck” letter on mine from JJA real soon now, so it’ll be all primed and ready to go to Scalzi on 10/1.
It’s very sad–I want to run, and enjoy the little I’ve done, but apparently my knee isn’t built for it.
Comment by Katherine Mankiller September 19, 2005 @ 2:51 pmJJA has “Book of Shadows.” I’m trying not to get my hopes up, since it’s much more likely, statistically, to be “you suck.” And yet, there is hope eternal. 😉
And thank you. Hopefully the cliché piece will behave in time.