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Another post about my illness. You can stop reading now.

I’m considering spending the day in bed, hoping the anxiety that’s currently choking me goes away and I stop wanting to cry. There’s no reason for either, it’s just how I feel today. I have things to do; I should be working on my short story, or reading one of the three books I need to review, or writing ky next ’30 days…’ post, or going to college to finish the assessment I started yesterday, or apply for that lab job in Leeds I’ve seen advertised, or eat something sensible, or take my dogs for a long run, or…you get the picture.

It’s really frustrating that I have things I need to get done. But I just don’t want to leave my room. My room is safe, everything else is scary. There are people outside; I’ll have to speak to them or otherwise interact.

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30 days of Creative Writing: Day 10

Today’s exercise discusses the use of music in writing. I have to write a story in which music forces the protagonist back to a specific point in time and cause them to re-evaluate their life.
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Things I had planned to do today.

But probably won’t because I feel like my skull is cracking open:

Write a review of Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Work on exercise 6 in Back to Creative Writing School by Bridget Whelan

Go to college to do my module assessment (one step closer to getting my IT diploma)

Instead I think I’ll just sit here and read a book about the Sun. And wait for the pain to go away.

I give up part 2 – The Reviewing Hiatus begins

I’m not in the mood to read ARCs today, I’ve decided. I want to write instead.

So I’m taking a break from reviewing until the beginning of December. I had planned to start on Friday but to be honest I can’t settle down to reading and I want to write. I have my NaNoWriMo from 2012 to go through and do a bit of work on. I haven’t even looked at it since January; it’s time to do some work on it and I know just what I want to write.

I give up

I said earlier I wasn’t going to give up on the two ARCs from Net Galley that I found difficult to read?

I lied.

After spending some time this morning attempting to get in to them I just couldn’t make any progress. I got so bored I procrastinated by adding a Twitter widget to my blog and created a new bookshelf in my Adobe Digital Editions.

The books have been moved to this new ‘unreadable’ bookshelf. For the sake of the authors reputations I wont name them or the books.

Time to read the next book and watch old episodes of Highlander.

Morning, don’t expect coherent writing until I’ve had at least one cup of tea

Hi everyone,

How are you all today?

I’m not feeling so great. I blame it on going to Nottingham at the weekend.

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