Today feels like a write-off for me.

I’ve struggled getting a full nights sleep for almost three weeks now. Today it has caught up with me.

Fortunately, I’m not giving myself that “word limit” to deal with, so I spent today working on everyone’s favourite subject: grammar!

Believe it or not, I was dealing with capitalization with my story. While that doesn’t sound too complicated, it is when dealing with proper nouns and names. Especially when – in a science fiction novel – there’s a lot of pilots. When do you capitalize the “C” in captain? Is it when you give the name? “Captain Derek?” What if you refer to Captain Derek later as captain? Do you capitalize the second “captain?”

Obviously through my sentences, I gave those answers away. There’s a few other situations where it was a problem – not to mention I have other ranking people in the story. Priests, fathers, mothers, presidents, lieutenants, privates, generals. . . and so on! As soon as I came home from work today, I went through my whole story and made the necessary adjustments. That’s all I have in me for the day though. I need to take tonight off to relax.

A lot of folks at work are getting sick. I cannot afford to get sick either.

I listened to my favourite Summoning album today: “Stronghold.” They are a ambient black metal band with music and lyrics primarily tied to the Lord of the Rings books. Despite the “scary” nature of that album cover, they’re music is really relaxing for me. It definitely helped me wind down.

Until tomorrow, friends!

I’m one week in and guess what? I managed to get this afternoon off! Before I did anything I had planned for the day, I decided to write and finish up a scene I’ve spent the past two nights working on. It feels good to finally move forward.

What I found interesting is how I still come up with new ideas for my story as I write. While I have everything plotted out and characters all decided on, I still manage to add little bits and pieces here and there. As I closed the scene today, I left an ambiguous cliffhanger. I don’t even have to resolve it in this book! It’s really interesting.

Whether or not I do resolve the cliffhanger is yet to be seen. Either way, it feels good to still create interesting plot devices after I had them all planned out. It’s amazing how the ideas simply present themselves.

If I tried to follow a word count, who knows whether or not I would’ve came up with these ideas! The freedom I gave myself on this challenge is such a blessing.

I gave Yes’ “Close to the Edge” a listen to today because it’s just a great album to enjoy on a Sunday afternoon! Close to the Edge, And You And I, and Siberian Khatru are all amazing songs!

Until tomorrow, friends!

These past few days have been shaping up to be some of the busiest and exhausting days I’ve had in a long while.

In a nutshell, along with working a ton, I’ve been busy with some more “life stuff.” After lots of nights with many prayers; as of a few days ago, I learned I will be moving on February first. With only two weeks notice, obviously things are a bit hectic.

But that’s okay, because I can still make writing happen!

Today – well, tonight – was a bit of a drag for writing, as I really am exhausted. I haven’t had a full nights sleep in two weeks, and it’s definitely taking its toll on my body.

I tweeted this earlier tonight: “Life is moving too quick at the moment. Remember to breathe & relax. Moving slowly is calming.” I definitely need to eat those words up as I know I’m going to be more overwhelmed shortly. But I have a writing job to do, and a challenge to accomplish!

My neighbours who live above me are tremendously loud tonight, so I felt like drowning them out with Evergrey’s “Glorious Collision.”

Until tomorrow, my friends.