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Day 26

Got a sunburn from being out in the woods all day today. Sucks. But it was nice camping for the first time with my fiancee. It was less nice because we were with her parents, but that's just how it goes. Oh, and seeing my dog in a tent for the first time was kind of funny and maybe even a little sad. I think she freaked out a little because she couldn't find the door, and at one point started to try to dig her way out.

We went on a hike, so hey I exercised. Sure. Let's call it that.

Anyway, got home and spent only about 20 minutes unwinding after my shower before I had to get my writing in. And though I didn't hit 1,000 in thirty minutes today, I'm at least to a point where my hope that later chapters will turn out longer is coming through nicely. I'm only about a third of the way through this chapter's notes. That doesn't necessarily mean that this chapter will end up being close to 3,000 words, but it could.

And I was thinking today. After my chat with my friend about this story, I came up with an idea if this one ends up really short. First off I can at least use it as a guide for how much planning I need to get the length of the story where I need it to be. Then I can write the second book. He did say he was more excited for the second book because of the end of this one than this one itself, and maybe I can use that. If I can tailor book 2 to be a good book 1, then I could use this one as a prequel and offer it for free via my mailing list (Note: Mailing list coming soon).

It's been done before. Okay, maybe not in the same way, but still, plenty of self-pubbed authors offer a prequel to a current series as a benefit to signing up for a mailing list. It's a good business strategy, really.

I'm hoping that's not what it comes to, to be honest. My job is to make this book awesome and as long as it needs to be. But it's never a bad idea to have a contingency plan, right?

All right enough outta me. It's been a long day. Time to start laundry and recline.

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Great work staying consistent with your writing, no excuses. Keep going with that, it will pay off at some point (hard to know when exactly but it will.)

Thanks for all your words of encouragement, especially these. It's so easy as a writer to look down the path and see the light at the end of the tunnel, then realize you're looking through a telescope and it's actually much farther than you thought, and give up. I've been there far too many times. Now, though, I realize that it will pay off. When is the question, but it's also kind of the answer.

I feel like I'm waxing poetic or some shit right now, but I'm probably just really tired and actually sound really high and incoherent.

Day 27

I just realized how close I am to day 30. Almost a third of the way there. I'll have to do some kind of status report on day 30. I'd do it now while it's on my mind but as I said above, I'm really tired.

Got another third of this chapter done. Before that, I started cleaning a lot. We had a lot of shit in the closet I wanted to get rid of, and it's mostly gone now. Just gotta get the fiancee to sort through some stuff when she gets home to decide what to keep and where things go. There's also a set of plastic drawers I emptied and she told me not to get rid of them right away. So we've got some work to do yet.

So because of all that cleaning, I'm really tired (Tired Mention Combo x3!). I really wanted to keep going on this chapter, but I really need a nap now. Started nodding off a little while writing. At least the words came easy, although I could have done without jumping back and editing/adding stuff in. That's against my mantra, normally. But I also know that if there are little things that I know need to be mentioned in the scene, I won't remember to add them in during editing. Better to find a good place for them in the heat of it. Because of that I didn't quite hit 1,000 words in 30 minutes (934 for the day) but I feel like the story is coming along well now.

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Day 28

Almost forgot to post. I'll only be a minute.

Got my writing done. Around 1400 I think. Finished the chapter I was working on, and jotted down some notes. One of the character needs his background figured out, and he also needs another scene that will add to the story. Which will likely lead to more scenes. Which is just fine by me.

Pretty uneventful day otherwise. All my cleaning yesterday inspired my fiancee to use her day off to clean a bunch today so things are getting nice and organized now. We even have a place to put coats other than the backs of chairs!

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Day 29

Oh my god such a bad writing day. Got about 600 words done before the chapter ended. Which really sucks because my notes for this chapter made it seem like it was going to be longer. I realized the issue, though. It only has one character in it.

I thought about doing something about it then and there, but nah. This chapter still gets the ball rolling, and it's just an opportunity to add more development leading up to the pivotal moment in post. I ended up fleshing out a character's background a little bit.

Not every day can be a win. This is proof of that. Still got my 30 minutes done, thanks to that character development.

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Very true, Cam. Thanks for that reminder.

Day 30

I feel like day 30 is supposed to be some momentous thing. Like, it's a third of the way through. You're not just 30 out of 90, you're 1 out of 3. That's how close you are. Like, that shit you just did? Do it twice more and you're done.

But today was a bit of an interesting ordeal. Where should I start?

I'm a little drunk right now. I'll start there.

But rewind to four in the morning when I got up. I went to work and had a fairly standard day at work. The boss found a new crusade to go off on regarding a stench in the office, so when I had an excess of lifeguards, I was able to put them on autopilot while I did more supervisorly shit. I'm one of the head guards if I haven't mentioned that before.

Yet after all this, after barely eating save for some scraps I found around the office, after having half a sub when I got home, I couldn't nap. The only caffeine I had today was from one of those MiO energy things that you mix with water and they taste like radioactive Kool-Aid. Yet I wasn't tired for some reason. Still aren't. Amn't. Hm. This is why "ain't" exists, ain't it.

Moving on, I realized that today being day 30, I had to take stock of this challenge. I want to add to this challenge now. I'd been saying it's less about what I'm not doing and more about what I am doing. So I started with cleaning, writing, and working out. Writing won the battle for dominance and the others took a backseat. So now I need to get exercise back in there, because we've gotten the apartment to be pretty manageable by now, and last night, I realized that I'm getting kinda fat.

I believe I mentioned before I'd always been pretty skinny. Helped that I was tall. Also helped (though it wasn't healthy) that I forgot to eat when I was gaming for hours on end. Even after that with a healthy diet, and even overeating, I stayed about the same. Then I hit 25 and my metabolism must have relieved a huge sigh and been like "fuck this I'm out."

I was on a swim team in high school. That and gym class (which was only for half of each year) was the only time I got any exercise in high school, up until I was about 20, when I started to build up some muscle. Even then, I didn't gain any weight that was unaccounted for until I was about 23, and that was easy to keep at bay. Now I'm a walking cautionary tale.

Because last night, I was my fiancee's date to a presentation she wanted to go to. I grabbed the jeans I normally wear (the one of six pairs of jeans that still fit me) and had trouble getting them on. I struggled with the button while she laughed at me and told me she didn't think these were the same jeans as usual. Turns out they were in the end, but I had to fight them sonsabitches onto my gut. I stepped on the scale and discovered I'd put on another five pounds.

I dunno how. But that was my motivation for starting a diet and exercise plan. Basically, I'm planning on eating mostly fruits and vegetables. On a related note, I almost stopped for burger king on the way home. Got Subway instead.

Anyway, there's another thing from today that I need to bring up after 30 days. I need to mention that I cheated a little bit. Early on, like in the first week, I downloaded and played the demo of a game that had just come out. I was just curious, and the demo had just been announced as being available. I didn't expect the game to be very good, but I wanted to know if I was being cynical and there was something I just wasn't seeing. I've concluded that my original assessment was correct. And since that was just one half-hour jaunt off the path, I didn't and don't feel set back by it.

Then again, even though I unsubbed a lot of YT gaming channels, I keep getting drawn back into different ones for various reasons. Mostly it's because it's a different format, or it's because of the people playing. Recently, though, a well-known group started playing one of my favorite games of all time. And I watched it. It was nostalgic and it was funny to hear people lovingly poke at its silliness and enjoy some of its concepts that were quite advanced for the 90s. In the end, it made me feel happy.

But I shared it with a friend because he had no experience with the game despite being a big fan of other entries in the series. He and I started talking about it and he brought up let's playing and mentioned that he kinda wished I was still doing it. I was pretty good at it, or at the very least I got much better at it. I pointed out that it took a lot of time to do, and I always felt like I should be writing instead. Then I realized, though, that so long as I kept up with my 30 minutes a day of writing, it wouldn't be so bad. As long as I write, work out, and make sure the apartment is clean, then I could LP to my heart's content, especially because I've grown a lot and I realize now what it is to be a creator, and to do something just for the love of it, not for the attention or the money.

And it's become a real dilemma. I'm in no real danger of suddenly up and quitting over this, though, because my desktop computer is busted and the motherboard it needs is no longer easy to come by like it was six years ago when I got it. And the laptop has its own issues and I don't want to deal with trying to use that for such a power-intensive hobby.

But argh, it's gotten me fired up. I even took that laptop apart to clean out the fan to try to speed it up. Turns out the fan was fucking pristine, though, and I just spent two hours taking apart and reassembling one of the most complicated laptops I've ever come into contact with. Which is why I didn't get my writing done until after nine.

Odds are, I'm going to wait until I start school and get my financial aid to fix my computer. Then I would be able to decide whether or not I want to get back into it. Honestly I think I was good at it and a couple of my series had a pretty good following. Part of the idea I had with my friend was that some people might come to my channel to watch to get more of the story because the guys playing the game together talk over a lot of things but sum things up. They also kinda screw up a lot of really simple things, whereas I'm really knowledgeable about it. So, it might actually be a good market ploy if I were to launch a series right now and out-pace those guys for people who want to experience more of the game and don't really care who's playing it.

Let's playing is oddly like self-publishing in some regards. I'd go on about that, but this post is getting long and I'm not getting any sobererer.

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I see that your excited about it but you have only 2months to go. I would advice you to stick to it for so long and then you can still go back and make let's play or whatever. It feels great to accomplished what I committed myself too and I wish you the same feeling. It is not just not gaming for 3 months. It is to make a commitment to yourself and stick to it. The knowledge that I can stick to something(anything) for 3months alone, improves my motivation to do things and my feeling of control in my life a lot.

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It is not just not gaming for 3 months. It is to make a commitment to yourself and stick to it. The knowledge that I can stick to something(anything) for 3months alone, improves my motivation to do things and my feeling of control in my life a lot.

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I see that your excited about it but you have only 2months to go. I would advice you to stick to it for so long and then you can still go back and make let's play or whatever. It feels great to accomplished what I committed myself too and I wish you the same feeling. It is not just not gaming for 3 months. It is to make a commitment to yourself and stick to it. The knowledge that I can stick to something(anything) for 3months alone, improves my motivation to do things and my feeling of control in my life a lot.

For me, this challenge was never to see if I can do it or not. There was no curiosity involved. It was more so that I needed to get back to what was really important to me, and I had to take out the most disruptive thing in my life, at least for a time. I have other things I need to quit as well, but for good. I don't know if gaming is one of those just yet. I'll go the full 90 days to make that decision... mostly because of the state of my computer. But that's details. It's the fact that I'm doing it at all that counts, right?

Day 31

Today was longer than expected. I had to deal with some truck repairs, which meant I had to take my truck to my dad's place. He's a mechanic by trade so it's pretty easy for him usually. This fix dragged out a little more because it was kind of a pain in the ass, but it's done now. Mid-way through, though, my grandma called my dad and asked him to take her to the ER, so we took a couple hours off to do that. It ended up being nothing, so don't worry, Grandma's okay and at home already.

Didn't get to work out today, but that's fine. I think jumping right into running and resistance training all at once was a bit too much, too fast, too soon. I need to strengthen up my running before I get back into anything else. The running is probably what was keeping those five pounds off, actually. I'll worry about lifting myself up off the ground when I weigh less. In the meantime, I made a conscious choice to sort of stick to my diet by getting a chicken sandwich instead of a burger when Dad wanted to stop for McDonald's on the way back from the hospital.

Got my writing done just a little bit ago. I took another look at the outline and decided act 2 starts a bit later than I thought, because a lot of the scenes occur over the course of a single day and night. That's act 1 on its own. I keep getting discouraged by the pacing of this one. Ideally I want the word count for act 1 to hit somewhere between 20 and 25k. It's at 10k right now, and I have about five more scenes left to write, though that's only because I moved a lot of act 2 scenes up. We'll see how it plays out.

Every time I get discouraged, though, I just remind myself that problems can be fixed in post. It might result in a lot of rewriting, but hey, that's what I signed up for and I know it.

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This isn't my official update for the day, just wanted to vent a dilemma. You can treat this as my real 30 day update, I suppose, largely because I'm sober and more focused now.

So I bought a game because it was one I'd had my eye on and it was on sale for really cheap. Figured I could buy it now so I could play it after the 90 days. Steam has a very specific refund policy, though (I think you have to do it within two weeks of purchase and before you've logged two hours in the game) so I gave myself thirty minutes to decide if I want to keep it or refund it.

I think I'm gonna keep it.

But I started thinking that maybe I don't want to go the full 90 days. I've been writing every day for almost a whole month now, and that was my main goal. But I decided to step back and do a closer look at what's actually different (or not).

What I like

  • I've written for thirty minutes a day for the past four weeks straight. I plan on keeping this up.
  • I've gotten some things cleaned up that were bugging me.
  • I've saved money.
  • I find it easier to read for hours at a time.

What I don't like and still need to change

  • I'm fat. (215 lbs whereas I was 205 during my last journal on GQ)
  • I stopped working out until I realized the above fact, then went for a run. I plan on running again today. After I eat and write. But I still want to get a consistent schedule going.
  • I haven't kept the apartment as clean as I'd have liked. The past few days with the fiancee barely around we haven't used many dishes, but over time the sink has filled up and we're out of clean cups. There are other things that are still bugging me as well.
  • I rely too much on Youtube sometimes to pass the time.
  • I relapsed on quitting porn after a couple weeks and I relapsed pretty hard. It just needs to stop.
  • I drink too much.

What I want my life to be like after all this

Okay, here's where I do the visualization. A typical day for me, whether starting in the morning or whenever I get home from work (pending whenever that may be) would consist of getting the place clean, working out, and writing. Maybe in that order, because cleaning and exercising would be a good time for me to think about what I'm going to write later. Then, after all that, with the place clean, my writing done, and my exercise complete, I can jump into whatever entertainment I feel like consuming at the time. I don't want to set required time limits on reading, because that makes me anxious and I don't like it. I prefer getting immersed in a book until I forget what day it is. Some books do this better than others; some just drag.

All of this has been about creating time to do all these other things. Quitting games wasn't about quitting games. It was about cutting out an unnecessary time block to give me time to do the things I needed to do. To put my priorities before anything else. To go back to where I was in Fall 2014 where I wrote all my daily requirements down and got them done before I could do anything for me.

When I've tried going back to that notebook idea, things tended to get in the way, probably largely because I prefer doing them alone, and my fiancee was in college at the time. That meant that I was more productive when she wasn't around. I don't want to clean around her, mostly because I don't want her to feel guilty for not helping. She works a lot (especially lately) and I can take more of the workload than her.

Other times, I just ended up sleeping. I think this was largely a depression thing, which is worse in the winter. Well, the weather has improved and I started taking fish oil which seems to be helping. Hell, after last week's early shift, I tried to take an afternoon nap and actually found I wasn't tired enough. Must mean something's working.

I also discovered that with porn addiction, as I've mentioned before, keeping a counter to log how long it's been since the last slip-up is counter-intuitive. I tried setting up a chains.cc chain for it, and every time I went to add a link, I ended up thinking about porn, and that led to relapse again. That's why I said it just needs to stop. No 30-day or 90-day celebrations, no anniversary of the last time I watched porn, none of that. It just needs to end and that theme in the story of my life has to come to a close. This isn't ending a chapter, it's starting a sequel.

Beer is pretty damn fattening. But wine and liquor aren't much better, and are probably in the long term more damaging. I try to set limits on my drinking and tend to fail miserably. It's pretty embarrassing when I go to make myself a drink and realize that there's only enough for like two or three more, and in the meantime my fiancee has only had a few drinks from that bottle. It's embarrassing and selfish.

So, in short, a day for me, working around my work schedule, should end up looking like this:

  • Work out and clean first, in either order.
  • Write for at least thirty minutes. On days off from work, amp this up to an hour minimum. If there is literally no time to do anything else, writing takes priority over even exercising and cleaning.
  • Deal with errands early.
  • Watch no porn. Don't even think about it. What porn? I see no porn here. Exactly.
  • Once everything is clean, all my exercise is done, and I have a clear head, I can read or play games or watch a movie.
  • I can drink on weekends, but beer is for special occasions only.

I feel like this is how responsible people behave anyway.

The Real Dilemma

I like you guys. That's the dilemma. I like the people here and the sense of community. It's not like Reddit where the signal-to-noise ratio is off the charts. You get buried on Reddit without responses. This has also been a very consistent community. For instance, the last time I went to /r/NoFap I ran into a lot of Red Pill ideals, people saying "you can do it, pussy!" which I just don't cotton to, and a whole buncha dogma. That dogma was always there, though, probably perpetuated by people who expected great things to happen by achieving 90 days in NoFap. After certain ideas gained more and more traction, the community started to feel kind of cult-like. But there are no Super Powers. There is only self-control.

So, I kind of wish this community was about more than just quitting games. Or, at least I wish that wasn't its primary focus sometimes. Because I want to quit other things, and improve myself in other areas. I've already proven to myself that I can pick something and do it with no excuses, even though some days are harder than others. Cam pointed out on my previous journal that I need to reverse the way I think about time management. Instead of thinking I'll do the things that are important to me "if I have time," I should do the things that are important to me and then use the time I have left to do anything else.

Spend your day off cleaning and getting things back to zero - back to a clean slate, no pun intended. Then, start scheduling the important things in your day and let the rest work around it. What would it look like if you did the opposite approach of "if there's time, I can work out." "if there's time, I can write."

If those are the things that are important to you, and they fuel you, you must do them, not if you have time. If you have time you can do other shit. I only share this because this has been a change I've made recently that's helped a lot. I used to only work out if I had time, and so I never worked out, because I never had time. So I switched that and I've been working out all week it's been great. Then today I had a ton of meetings scheduled, forgot to schedule my workout in, and I was feeling overwhelmed. So I cancelled a meeting to get my workout in. I can do that meeting in a few weeks and nothing will be impacted, but I still get my workout today which is a priority. It always comes down to the little decisions you make.

 

So I almost have this down. I definitely have it down for writing. Now I just need to do it for everything else. Only then will I feel comfortable adding gaming back to my tertiary activities list.

I guess that's about all I wanted to say. The main gist of it is that I don't plan on quitting games forever, and that I'm making progress, but I sometimes wish that I could play games and still have this community for support in other areas.

I'll be back later with my real daily update.

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Hey man if you play again in moderation you can still post here and I'm sure people won't mind as long as you don't go in details about your games. Do what is right for you. I will limit my gamequitters time soon, but your journal would be one I'd like to follow.

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Hey Dave, having read your latest post, it's a tough one, perhaps I can relate to some extent... 

From the moment I signed up to this site, I never viewed quitting games forever as the ultimate end goal, the be-all and end-all, I was open to the idea, but it wasn't set in stone in my mind that I had to. Everybody's story is different, but if I was to generalise, I wasn't playing games that much in recent years when compared to most, but at the same time, by joining this site, I was acknowledging that something wasn't right and was in need of changing in order to better myself. I have to believe that applies to everyone if we're being honest with ourselves. How much this change is to do with our gaming habits, again, this varies from person-to-person. For some it come be that gaming is the sole problem, for others there can be additional issues such as porn like yourself, or internet procrastination as in my case.

I have 5 days remaining of my detox, and as detailed in my journal, it is my intention to continue gaming in some capacity, but I intend to carry on posting here with the hope of improving other areas of my life, getting on top of my internet procrastination being one of my primary goals, and to hold myself accountable for when I do game.

My advice, which you can happily ignore if you so wish, is to see out the 90 days. I believe @Cam Adair is right when he said that if you can't go 90 days without gaming, you probably shouldn't be playing at all. For me, completing the detox was about proving to myself that I could go without gaming for an extended period as much as anything. As @WorkInProgress said though, do what is best for you :)

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The issue I'm still wrestling with is that this "detox" will end at the end of June if I go the full 90 days. Then I go back to school in August and I'll have less time. It almost makes more sense to just milk the time I have left until then and when I'm back in school, cut back again.

For now, I'll keep up with it. I've been talked back from the edge.

Day 32

Got my writing done, went for a run, did the dishes. Now I have to leave for work shortly and I get off at 10, so I don't have much time left for anything else today. Now I'm tired. Gonna go set a timer and try to get a nap in before work.

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The intention behind the site is for it to be about much more than just quitting games - games are simply the initial point of interest or catalyst if you will. However, for the site's culture to truly evolve beyond gaming being the focus, we need members who transcend beyond gaming as well, and who stick around to contribute on that regard. Otherwise, the signal-to-noise ratio of gaming vs. the rest of life will always lean much more towards gaming, because that is the issue the majority of the members are dealing with. 

If you're open to my perspective, what I shared about transforming the way you see your time is still at the very root of this conversation - and - I absolutely acknowledge you for how far you have grown in that regard.

Gaming now to milk it before you get busy again is the same thing as putting off the dishes until you need to do them because you are out of cups. The error here is that the point that you need cups is the point where you now have to do the dishes before you can use a cup. It completely disrupts your flow. Whereas if you just do the dishes right away after having used them, it's a small investment of time (20-30 seconds per dish), that allows your general life to flow very well. It's sustainable. Just as having your life be in a positive flow state now will contribute much more to sustaining that positive flow state when school begins again.

The truth is, when school is done you will have more work, and the same ability to adapt and sustain the quality of your life and the flow within it will be the same practice. Mastering it now vs. delaying that practice until further notice is of no real benefit, now or in the future, in my experience.

Also, I would really encourage you to just finish the 90 days, for no other reason than to finish it - regardless of whether there's some grand meaning behind it or not. Finish what you start. Whether it's with this, with your books or novels, and so forth. :)

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Thanks, @Cam Adair. I started thinking about it and I'm not actually all that into the idea of going back to gaming right now. Like I said, my desktop is out of commission. I was looking at motherboards online and I can replace mine for $70. I brought it up to my fiancee and she told me to wait. We have three other laptops including the Chromebook. I use the repaired laptop for writing and the Chromebook for pretty much everything else. She pointed out that I only used the desktop to play games. So I figured that not repairing it right away was a good way to keep myself off of gaming since the laptop isn't quite as good as I'd like it to be right now.

So, we'll see where it stands this summer. I considered my progress with writing and all my false starts with working out. I'm sticking with just running for right now. Then when I'm comfortable with that I'll add the upper body workouts in. But I need to build up that habit just like I built up the writing habit. Keeping gaming out of the equation should help I think.

Day 33

Got my writing done, and it was a pretty productive day there. Fiancee's home taking a day off after four days of really long days, so I limited my writing to spend time with her. I left this chapter off partway through, but it was going pretty smoothly. Hopefully I didn't make a mistake stopping when I had a good head of steam going.

Otherwise, I'm really distracted now. TV's on. Tiny apartment. Peace.

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I started my exercising with running only too. It helped me alot just to do it everyday. But even with some walking pauses my knee hurt, that's why I started to alternate between bw-training and running. It worked out fine. Guess my advise would be to go out if possible every day at the same time and alternate between walks and runs. I read in the book "Deep Work" an interesting part where the author describes hw he uses this walks/runs for reflection of complex problems. Maybe you could think about some problems in your book while your out there.

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I haven't gotten to the point of running every day yet. I should probably just start alternating between runs and walks with my dog.

I'm following the Couch to 5K program currently, which is a three times a week program. It starts out easy, then over the course of nine weeks it works you up to being able to run a 5K (or 30 minutes straight, depending on how you're calculating it). Once I get to the end of it, I plan to run every day, alternating what kind of day it will be: All running, running with walk breaks, short sprints with long walk breaks, etc.

I usually run with an audiobook, though. It helps me tune out how shitty I'm feeling sometimes during a run, as well as gives me a reason to run. So if my mind wanders to focusing on story problems, then I end up missing part of the book. Not to say I haven't tried running without the audiobook, but every time I have, I've just found it so much shittier. It's less meditative than you might think, at least for me.

Plus, I'm getting better at not focusing on writing outside of my writing time. I "leave work at the door" as they say. Writing time is writing time. The exception is when an idea pops into my head and I need to write it down right then and there.

Today looks like it might be a long, stressful day. Not sure if I'll post an update later. I plan to run and I plan to write and that's all I can say for sure right now.

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Day 34

Final update for the day. Today was a good writing day. Created a new character on the spot for the Antagonist to verbally spar with. Like I said, I really need to work on including a good supporting cast in my stories. Had I not done that, I wouldn't have been able to reveal as much as I did about her character and her goals. It was a fun writing day, and I did it in a white heat, because my fiancee was only going to be gone for a little while. So it's actually kind of silly that I wrote so quickly since my goal is a time goal, not a word count goal. I guess it helped in the end anyway.

Like I mentioned above, I achieved #WriteChain mastery by hitting 30 straight days of writing. And I checked out the word count again on Act 1 and it's at about 13-14k now, so between 6 and 11k more will be perfect, and that's certainly within reach.

Wasn't the best running day, though. I do better running in the morning, particularly after I've eaten some scrambled eggs. Instead today I went running at about 4:30 after having coffee. And the worst part: I can't find my compression sleeves. I can already tell my legs are gonna hurt like hell, soon.

In light of my thoughts of turning back to Let's Playing when I'm done with this detox, I've had an idea for an intro, as well as a format for how I would present one of the games. I won't go into detail, but I did come across a free copy of Adobe Premiere, and I'm thinking of playing with it to create that intro. Consider it a creative project, one that I won't be able to get out of my head until I at least attempt it.

So, I'm off to go mess with that. Fiancee and I are kinda cleaning together tonight, as well, so it won't all be fun and games. Especially not games. That comes much later.

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Day 35

Not much new to report. Got my writing done. Legs hurt from yesterday's run. Took a nap. You know, boring stuff. Plus I kind of just get very blah when I start to worry about money. I get paid tomorrow, but today just thinking about dinner is making me worry about how much I can afford.

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