So, Yeah: The “HELLO” Edition

[railenthe]

I’m going for another word sprint today.  I set myself up for half a failure when I set a goal of 4k words a day, I realize, but I also realized a few other things during the last three sprints:

• I write better either heavily caffeinated or slightly drunk.  HELLO BOTTOMLESS LATTES.
• I can quite easily make 2k words a day if I sit down and actually sprint in bursts of an hour and a half at a time.  HELLO PROGRESS
• I am most productive when I am supposed to be sleeping. Of course this means morning grogginess.  …HELLO BOTTOMLESS LATTES.
• Video game music remixes done in the style of a theatrical score are positive catnip for the muses.  HELLO BLACK OMEN REMIX.
• Heavy writing is, despite the amount of sitting on my narrow ass, does count as a physical activity…if the way I feel wiped out after a surprise 4k sprint is any indication.  No wonder I’m having blood sugar issues during this thing.  …HELLO HOMEMADE WAFFLES.
• HELLO LEARNING SPELLCHECKER:  Placed at the front because this one is so damned important:  I can set Scrivener’s spellchecker to learn names.  This doesn’t seem that important at first aside from removing that blasted squiggly red line that pops up everyone someone new speaks until you realize that, combined with the Autocorrect function, you can make names with extra ornaments—like my healer’s name, Richéa, which requires a full stop to type so that you can hit “ALT+0233”—autocorrect to what they’re supposed to be just by lazy typing: the e becomes é right off the bat and you don’t have to think about it at all!  HELLO, INDEED, LEARNING SPELLCHECKER.
• I work better when I can stop and eat every half hour or so.  Which is why noon will be spent preparing for a sprint session beginning at 1 PM.

 

Another PLAN?!one eleventy

 

I’m still about 5k words behind the average.  If I write 2k a day, I’ve caught up in four days or so (because the extra 400 words in four days adds up to a free day earned.  Ladies and gentlemen, the second thing that makes me do math.  The other one is cooking).  But I have to have a plan.  I have to have not just any plan.  I have to have a cunning plan.  AND HERE IT IS.

 

1. COOK MANY THINGS.
2. Decant concentrated espresso coldbrew concentrate.
3. Place the MANY THINGS THAT WERE COOKED in a warm oven so that they’re warm whenever I stop to eat.
4. EAT.
5. HAVE A LATTE.
6. WRITE.
7. Stop for fifteen minutes.
8. REPEAT STEPS FOUR FIVE AND SIX.

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