It’s 9:42. I wanna say I went to sleep around three or four. I definitely didn’t sleep enough.

Time to get up, make breakfast, and wake Siarl. They have another appointment today.

I also need to get more pellets or hay for the goats today but I’ll worry about that later:

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So, a big reason why the evening got away from me yesterday was that I FORGOT TO TAKE MY ADDERRALL.

That’ll do it. Come to think of it, I’ve just had my pancakes and haven’t taken my first adderrall of the day yet. It’s 11:03. Fixing that now. Then I’ll go wake up Siarl for their appointment.

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It’s 1pm the next day. I just got up. We went to bed around 4. I loaded the truck with hay yesterday and never showered afterwards. I have allergies which affect my sleep and with my sleep machine not working anymore that may have been a bigger mistake than usual.

We’ll see.

Siarl got to their appointment ok. When they got home we hung out a bit and then I went off to get the hay.

Like the day before, I didn’t read any comics or fiction yesterday, but I did purchase and read all of Dean Wesly Smith’s Writing In The Dark. I’ve made a few adjustments to how I write after reading it. I also bought a book of his about Heinlein’s business rules of writing but only read the first chapter or so.

A few days ago I asked Siarl to have a look over a chapter of Heroes Of The Green City because that hero has a nonbinary gender and I didn’t want to fuck anything up. They said I didn’t but also that my prose “lacked heart” that my earlier writing (from years ago) had.

I’ve decided that what was really missing from my prose was personality. It’s been very dry and matter of fact. It’s been boring and no fun.

The latest chapter I wrote yesterday has, I think, begun to fix this lack of flavor. I only wrote for an hour but it was a blast. I was also allowing myself to get into my character’s head more and trying even harder to just let things happen in the story. The words just flowed out of me. It was so good.

I just checked the word count, 1701, not bad at all.

I also finished a sketchbook page and published it to the site. No ukulele yesterday either. Well, I’m gonna fuckin’ try again today!