Journal/Blog

My writing comes in spurts...

Gosh, my writing is only in short spurts. I'll never write a novel at this speed. Wait, I have no intentions of writing a novel. Short stories, magazine articles, maybe some filler for the local newspaper...no insurmountable ideals, only practicality.


Tomorrow I start one of those short, 6 week online courses for writing magazine articles. I will have to see how that turns out. And of course, I had to order some more reference books. I once had a humongous book of various facts and another of famous quotations. I no longer seem to have them, I think I can see a possibility for quotations, they could serve as starting prompts...not to actually use but to spark an idea.


Amazon has provided. Once again, they get a handful of my money that I have so precious little of, and I shall have an index of quotations as well as a book of quotations. I also preordered a book of facts...I don't trust wikipedia to be correct all the time, perhaps the book isn't either, but between the two, I should be able to get some reference points for further research.


I still have my references for use of words, punctuation, etc. Of course, in our current times, it seems like a push for accuracy and correctness has fallen to the side. I did grow up in an education system that did pay attention to such things even though some of the new crop of teachers in my later years of elementary and high school did have some questionable ''teachers''. The education system was starting to go downhill while I was still in school and there is evidence of that running rampant in today's society.


I had shoulder surgery not quite two weeks ago and it has not been entirely pleasant. I fell down my stairs just after Christmas of 2021 resulting in tearing loose all the ligaments holding my clavicle in place in my left shoulder. I just finally found a surgeon that would fix it so adding in a tendon to strap things down and a couple pins to hold it in place. Now I just have to be careful I don't overdo things. Patience has never been my strong suit. And I want to get back on my bicycle. Right now they don't want me riding in case I might fall. I can guarantee I won't be waiting until Christmas. I was getting my cardio vascualr system into much better shape, I don't want to regress too much and I am still trying to lose some extra weight.


Meanwhile, life goes on!


Until next time...