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No Real Brain Yet
Hold On… If I owe you an email from the last week I should be able to get to you tomorrow (Friday). Sorry for the delay. I had far too much fun in this workshop and learned far too much stuff and my brain just wants to veg. And I would not have done this much without this silly blog streak.
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Slow On Responses
Not Much Time for Email… So I will be slow on responses for a day or so. Please be understanding with this old guy. I have a lot of old and new friends in town for the next day or so to talk to. So I am not getting home until late. But I at least wrote this much to keep my streak of nightly blogging alive. No idea why I keep this streak going, but here it is. Sorry for the delay if I have not gotten back to you yet on an email. I will, I promise.
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Quick Post To Hit Challenge
Vegas Internet is Down… Using my phone hot spot to do this, so going to be quick to hit my challenge of a blog a day. First off, walked and ran 7.5 miles today. Slowly gaining distance, so that feels good. And got a bunch of things done for the coming Master Class. And once again I can tell you that the November regular workshops are now up on Teachable. Sign up at Teachable.com And there are lifetime subscriptions available on Teachable as well if you decide to get serious and really try to take as many as possible. Class #49… Nov 6th … Depth #3: Research Class #50… Nov 6th…
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Remember My Last Challenge?
Writing At Pulp Speed Five… Doing 10 novels in 100 days. Plus a book blogging about it. That challenge? Remember? Well, it started on September 9th and got off to a very rocky start, to say the least. (That is such a huge understatement it makes me giggle.) So what happened? Simple, actually. I ended up trying to do far, far too many things at once. — I switched my sleeping schedule five hours, from writing late and going to bed late to getting up early and writing during the day. That switch has worked, but weeks and weeks of time to get used to. — I increased my exercise,…
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Exercise Continuing
Down 20 Pounds in Ten Weeks… Exactly as planned, which almost never happens with weight loss of any kind. Ran/walked another 5k this morning in another fun-run event, this time for a Children’s Hospital. Started at 8 am on the other side of the valley from here. (Meant getting up about the time I used to go to bed when living on the coast. Course was hilly, so my time ended up about the same as the last two. I need to drop more weight before the time will really improve. But I did walk 43 miles in steps last week. Average about 12,300 steps a day. Best week so…
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Getting To Some Writing
Yes, Still In the Challenge… But way behind because life has just jammed up over the last few weeks with far, far too many things that must be done. And exercise is one of those things. But I have not given up on my challenge just yet. Yesterday I got back into the book and tonight I’m going to give it writing time. So a short post because for tonight writing comes ahead of this blog. Go figure. So instead of something worthwhile, you get a picture of me standing in front of a sign before a 5k charity run a few days ago. And no, that is not my…
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Reaction to Failure
Maybe One of the Best Quotes from The Voice Ever… On Tuesday, while talking to and encouraging a young woman who didn’t get a chair to turn, Adam Levine said to her out of nowhere, and I quote, “It’s your reaction to your failures that make your success.” As many things on The Voice, this applies directly to writing as well. Directly. Now this young girl just failed in front of millions of people, but she had the courage to try out and to walk up there on that stage and give it a shot. Total success. She got to sing in front of millions and that is a bunch…
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Home Again
This was a Very Quick Trip… And a very busy one. And fun. I will know in the morning how well my holding my eating and weight under control worked. Tonight, Kris and I walked around the block a few times right after I got in around 11:30 so I could keep my 10,000 step streak going. Did a bunch of writing in the Alaska Airline lounge at the Portland airport, but only a little on the plane because I got into a conversation with a very nice man who ran a major solar power plant outside of Vegas. Science fiction stuff in reality. My first novel on my challenge…
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The Problem With a Streak…
…Especially a blog streak… …that has now lasted years, is that some nights, like tonight, the brain is so tired, it just doesn’t care and I have nothing at all to say. Yet the power of the streak requires me to type stuff. So take this post as a lesson in how powerful a streak on anything can be given enough time.
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Short Post Tonight to Keep My Streak Alive
Just got back to the room from the poker room…. I managed to get my 10,000 steps, do almost 3,000 words on the novel, and play a bunch of poker. I will detail it all out to those who are following the challenge after I get back how I managed to do that. I got knocked out of the tournament about four spots out of the money (big tournament) so since my friend I was with was still in the tournament, I moved over and sat down in a 4/8 limit game. (I haven’t played limit poker on a live table in a decade or more, but it was the…