TPA 16

For the record, yesterday's work was just uploaded at a very late time, I think it was two in the morning and I had forgotten to publish it. Right now, I'm waiting for a fried to come over so we can watch a movie I wanted to analyze. It's called "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish." I've heard good things about it but I haven't had the time to sit down and watch it. This will be a good opportunity. I don't think I'll get to a thousand words today. Guess Hell or Highwater came for me again. Honestly, I want to think about my tooth story but I don't know what to do. Writing like right now is a steam of consciousness, and this story keeps on making me stop and think. How do I combine the two? What else happend today? I got most of my pills from the pharmacy so that helped. And I got some groceries done so I won't have a lack of snacks or drinks for a while. That's also good. I've noticed that as I've built this habbit of exercising every day and writing every day that I've started to crave it. These two activities give me structure. I get up. work out my back, and write until it's time to go to work. Then I come home, rest and write or read. I really need to work on that reading part. There's this book I want to review that was written by this author who wrote a story about a fox. I need to get to a higher level. I think I can do that by reading and reviewing other people's books. But here's the problem: That's not writing. I think I'll ask my coach for some help because writing this tooth story is way different than writing like I am right now. I feel more free but it's like developing a bad habbit, what's the point of writing every day if I don't put some effort to my own stories? I've come up with a few more ideas for my KIY series so maybe that's where I should put my efforts. I think Stephen King did that too. His "Dark Tower" series started off as a short story which evolved into what he called an "uber novel." Eight books and a few short stories later (if you count the Colorado Kid as part of the series, which I do) and he's got one of the longest series in written history.

You know, I know this guy who does game reviews. Goes by the name of "Yahtzee." He's really funny and while I've never read any of his books I hear his videos every week, sometimes twice a week and I get jealous at how creative he is with his wording. I'm so straight forward, how do I fix that? I'm just telling it straight but I see these other people write in these clever ways that makes me go "oh, that was neat." I've looked up a few more books that could help me add more punch, now if I could only read them. I think I'll work on reading that story I wanted to read earlier.

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