Cue the Failure Music (Wa-waah!)

 Ok, so I actually missed a day on the very second day (Go me!)

So what I propose to do about this is to spend today's 100 words on discussing what things distract me from setting up good habits.

From the outset, I should tell you a few things about me: I am somewhat disabled, due to having operations on my feet & having 2 wait for a foot to heal in order to get a hip replacement.

This has taken almost five years now, oweing to the fact that I should spend as much time off my feet as possible, but can't because I also have an elderly mom who is sick and needs my help sometimes, let alone not being able to wait on me.

Hopefully that doesn't sound like blame, because there is none to to be laid in this situation, it's simply the way things are. She needs potatoes peeled? You just peel them sitting down, is all.

Mostly, I just stay in my room, staying off my foot. Maybe once a month I leave the house to go to a doctor's appointment.

I do chair exercises to keep my circulation going, but because I can't do any true cardio, I feel there's still a little left to be desired with my daily workout.

The upshot of all this is that for the past four years or so, I've led an extremely sedentary lifestyle. And due to ADD and a couple of other cognitive issues I already have, the inactivity I live in tends to breed more inactivity. Essentially, I wake up some mornings not knowing whether to wind my watch or go blind.

I naturally try to fill that time with constructive activities, Duolingo, Udemy courses, etc. Sometimes I finish stuff I start, other times I look at the Duolingo app on my phone and see that it's making that crying/melty face.

And of course, there's always things to look at on Twitter, YouTube, or our nice tvs that we have, with all the streaming stuf you can get for free these days.

I try to take in as much educational stuff as I can, read books and my Bible every day. I also do a little crafting. I often get very excited and focused in on one thing, and all of a sudden I look at the clock and realize what time it is. And I've wasted all my time on Adam Driver Twitter, or planner videos on YouTube, or there's that episode of the Golden Bachelor I have to watch...

Anyway, like it or no, and whether it's perfect or not, this is going to be a thing I stick with, because I can't not do it. Everything else is about feeding it anyway.

AltNaNo!

 Well, I found this thing on Tumblr, and it occurred to me that if I want to get serious about blogging again I need to start doing something like this.

I've, always admired people that do NaNoWriMo every year, but I did question how people do it. I've actually been writing off and on since I was a little kid, and I couldn't write an entire novel in one month! 50, 000 words. Are some of them actually playing with the numbers? I can't fault them if they do, but it does make you wonder.

So my task this month is to write for 15 minutes a day, and to keep myself honest I will post it here every day. I have now gone past today's goal of 100 words, and now I'm just writing to fill up the 15 minutes...

...Six minutes, 45 seconds to go...what can I write at the end? I have some plans to re-establish my writing habits, let's see if this helps.

A little over five minutes...so one of my plans was to use this blog as the "sandbox" and post the cream of my writing on Substack, I have a couple of ideas about some stuff to write there. I even have plans to write a small ebook in the somewhat near future.

...Three minutes. This last bit is not as good as I'd like it to be, but at least I'm putting pen to paper...every minute that goes by, I'm at a loss for ideas...maybe I can write about having no ideas.

What can I write for one minute? Do I feel like an author now?

10 seconds...

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