joy

Jeff, on a trampoline this past weekend.

Got the go-ahead on three more short articles. One of the articles is for young musicians/singers about how to start your own music group...should be fun to write. :-) I'm also continuing to work on queries for other markets.

I'm really enjoying getting back to working on my novel. I'm still determined to get two manuscripts to my agent by the end of the year. As long as I stick to my daily wordcount quota of rewritten/edited 1000 words a weekday, I should be fine. On bad arm days I'm under my quota, but most days I go a bit over. This self-imposed schedule assumes that I can increase this quote to 1500-2000 words a day as my arms continue to recover from tendinitis.

It's such a joy to be finally able to type as fast as I'd like to, even though I can't type for as long as I'd like to. :-) The word "joy" is not an exaggeration. For the past fourteen months, I've felt as if I've been in one of those dreams where you try to run but feel like you're running in molasses, your limbs are that slow and unresponsive...except it's been with typing instead, and there's much more pain involved.

As someone who relies heavily on a computer for work and much of her communication, it's been incredibly difficult at times, especially immediately after setbacks like the sprained elbow.

The danger now is letting the euphoria of being able to type again lure me into another setback. I love writing. And when I get into the rhythm of a good writing day, when the ideas are coming and I feel as if I want to keep writing forever, it's very, very hard to stop when that annoying little voice on my computer alarm pipes up with "TIME FOR AN ARM BREAK!"

Woohoo, I've upgraded from 2 lb weights to 3 lb! I do about 100 reps throughout the day, various arm exercises. Still baby-weights, I know, but it means my arms are still getting stronger, which means I should be able to type for longer at a time without getting tired, which means I'm that much closer to being completely healed.

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