illness and body parts and murder, oh my

so, i've been sick this week. not sick enough to miss work (or can't afford to stay home from work is most accurate). but my head has been stuffy and nose stuffy and weak and tired and yada yada. i've been writing bits here and there but it has felt stilted, stale, slow - sluggish. like me.

i whined a little. slept. whined, worked, napped, slept. oh, and ate a little. and drank coffee. whined. wrote.

was feeling a little blah about the story or that we have not gotten to the exciting part yet. everything feeling drawn out.

i let the one character be murdered instead of hurt and in a coma. oh well.

then a body part appeared in the hamper. weird. and that thread is going no where so far.

and. stale. ugh. sloshing through the muck.

then today, i was feeling better, had another eight hours of sleep (careful, this could become a habit). even got up and went for a two mile walk (i could not do the 3eight i was scheduled and was advised to not push my body that much). home. showered. went for breakfast (in true nano fashion, this "breakfast" was at 1:30 pm) at one of my writing spots, along with my laptop.

oooh. so i said the story was getting stale.

well, over breakfast and writing, they (the characters, of course) decided that someone would die. well, another one would die. and this was the dog. omg, i told them. no, not the dog. geesh, what do you want people to think?

then i went to work.

oh well. it is their story. and the dog is dead as i approach 40,000.

back to work.

non-writing preparation

But then, doesn't everything we do relate to our writing?

True.

What I mean is non-writing tasks to prepare for the writing.

In November, you mean.

Yes. {sigh} In November. The Big Month. The Month of Writing Dangerously.

Oh. So?

The non-writing tasks to-do list:

1. - sleep, since I will be getting less of it in November.
2. - buy some instant coffee to stash in the car, my backpack, by laptop bag, my purse (okay, okay - I'll try the Via, a jar of Caffe d'Oro won't fit in my purse) - for those times when I don't have time to make it or buy it, or maybe not enough money to buy it (I'm working less in November to give me time to write)
3. - buy extra underwear and do all laundry on October 30th to minimize laundering needs
4. - schedule a sleep-in for December 1st
5. - buy snacks, nuts, quick meals, and electrolyte tablets and a lot of popcorn; okay, and some peanut M&Ms and/or Snickers
6. - food prep: hard boil some eggs on October 31 and cook up a bunch of rice; slice some veges; make sure have soup and crackers, cereal, soy milk, coffee and coffee
7. - make sure ibuprofen is stocked
8. - make "writing, do not disturb" signs
9. - send an email announcement that I will become unresponsive to emails, phone calls, letters, and so on for a month
10. - get extra exercise since it will be tough to keep logging the miles while I'm logging the words (unless I can figure out how to work even less)

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