Menu

Subscribe

Dear Diary

A 3892-post collection

Friday: Bad Brain Day

My alarm goes off at 4:30AM. When I should get up, see to my self-maintenance, do my exercises, then enter the proper world and begin my daily tasks.

No such luck.

I woke up weary. Exhausted and in pain when I should have been fresh and ready to go about my daily tasks. So I flopped back in bed and tried to catch some extra rest.

It felt like gravity was doing double duty. It took as much effort to roll away from pain as it took to recover in that new position. I barely had the energy to get up to pee.

I'm not even sure what the trigger was to have be deep in depression that bad.

Finally, towards three in the afternoon, a light cure was administered - Banana bread. The sugar boost got me out of bed enough to gather nutrition and actually get on with things.

Story very soon, I should hope.

Thursday: RAIN

It is absolutely BUCKETING over here in Sunny Queensland. I was woken by the thundering blatter on our roof. Further investigation revealed that Whenitrains Creek is not only running, but it has a pal by the Eastern fence. And the news that the rain is going to continue for the foreseeable future.

I'm calling it now. We're getting a second once-a-century flood inside of 20 years.

And people say that climate change isn't real.

With the shitty weather comes the threat of

Read more »

Wednesday: The Search For Spoons

I'm... struggling.

My knees are nominally operational again, but my right hip has taken it's turn, with my back, to make functioning in meatspace more than a little difficult.

I'm doing what I can to improve the situation, but I'm still on low-batt/minimal spoons today.

I have 1K left worth of words to put into my Promptcast thing and I have yet to reach the prompt I want to use. Soon.

My PLN is to plug in the last 1K and

Read more »

Tuesday, SHENANIGANS!

Today is a fifty-steps-to-make-coffee day.

I did not rise from my bed before seven. I've been having emotional difficulty commencing my day by rising from my bed. Short version: Depression and Anxiety have synergised into making that my daily problem.

My steak, which I put in the fridge to thaw, had been shoved into a back area where it would remain partially frozen. Thus, I had to dawdle getting the rest of my breakfast and, long story short, It was HALF PAST

Read more »

Monday, Crowded Schedule

I got a promptcast to moderate, since the stories spilled over. I have shopping to do [fortunately a quick trip to the local shops] and a shrink meet today.

At some point, I will put in 500 words into the Promptcast entry for next week. And write the story du jour.

It's a busy day.

Now that my book is out, I can get back onto other money-scrimping shenanigans. Like working on the entire catalogue of comics I shall be selling off.

Read more »

Saturday, Whoopsy Doopsy

Don't expect a lot out of me, today.

  1. I managed to cut myself whilst futzing around with bread organisation, yesterday [Typos +5]
  2. After finishing my daily tale, I proceeded to play Dressmaker
  3. Until A QUARTER PAST MIDNIGHT
  4. For reasons unfathomable to me, I don't feel very well today.

I think I might write my tale and take a nap. [And probably play more Dressmaker when I wake up]

I might take a nap and then write the daily tale.

I might write

Read more »

Friday, Onwards?

I could have a book page from Ingram, but it costs $7USD a month and I don't have that reliable an income yet [Still paper-chasing for the Disability Pension] so that one has to wait. Nevertheless, Not With a Bang is available in all good e-bookstores everywhere Ingram Spark chooses to advertise.

[Shown here: The cover of Not With a Bang featuring a man looking over a ruined flatiron building while the rest of New York is covered in Kudzu]

Look for

Read more »

Thursday, Publish Maybe?

I just have a few more steps before putting Not With a Bang out there. A little bit of "thanks for reading" at the back of the book. Assigning an ISBN, and looking into the print version while I'm there.

Not a lot to do, and I should stop procrastinating on that.

The Promptcast is having an early stream today. I'm also treating my stupid fucking ankle and making some dough that I'll be baking tomorrow.

I never fucking stop, do I?

Read more »

Wednesday, Things Done Early

The Weird Writer Wednesday is out in the universe. I have completed the Promptcast thing, and sent it off.

I finally got the cover art ready to roll, so now it's a question of working around my various editor program's quirks to get a legible copy into LibreOffice. For example: Copying from Ellipsus directly into LibreOffice will give me GREEN TEXT where the italics are For Some Fucked Up Reason... so I had to copy it into GoogDocs, copy from Googdocs, and

Read more »

Tuesday, Early Start

I was up at 1AM with asthma so... fed the cats, plugged myself in, and started writing. I have derped and published my Weird Writer Wednesday a day early. Whoopsy doopsy.

I shall get rattling on today's tale and the Promptcast entry anon.

I'll definitely be treating my stupid fucking ankle today. I have no idea why I didn't do it yesterday other than inconvenience.

I can tell you right now that the pain from skipping treatment is worse than the inconvenience

Read more »

Monday, Shopping Done and Other Stuff

I have SO MUCH writing to do today. For the Promptcast newsletter, for the Promptcast, for you, my lovely viewers. And I still have to treat my ankles and work on the dingdang book cover.

...and I plan on trying to enlist the writers on Tumblr later today.

I'm doing my best to get as many words as possible towards that 1 million total.

It's nasty hot, but I also have my post-shopping ice cream to keep me cool enough. And a

Read more »

Sunday, Streams and Nonsense

The Promptcast is streaming soon. I shall be moderating as always.

The story will be occurring after that.

My ankle hates me, and treatment takes time away from moderating. Fortunately, I have various means of easing the hatred.

I'm going to have to do a little bit of shopping tomorrow. Nothing huge. Just quality of life things. So therefore nothing overtly expensive.

I am almost-nearly done with the cover. I need to do a bit of precision shading. And then it's title

Read more »

Saturday, Streams and Stuff

The Promptcast has interviews today. If I treat my stupid fucking ankle when the notice goes out, I won't need to treat it again until after the stream is done.

We've figured out a way where I don't need anyone's help to do the hot/cold pack swap. Huzzah?

I shall be working on leaf rendering while treating my stupid fucking ankle. Which will be for roughly ten minute sprints at two hour intervals.

So far, so good.

We did just have

Read more »

Thursday, Slowly But Surely

I only got a few more leaves rendered, yesterday. My ankle firkin hates me. I forgor to write anything for Weird Writer Wednesday, boo and hiss.

And I need to find a handful of minutes to talk to my lovelies about treating my stupid fucking ankle. Because I need help to swap the cold pack and the heat pack out and maybe even refresh the temperature a smidge.

I should go do that now.

Also in my PLNs... finishing that layer of

Read more »