Monthly Archives: June 2024

Stream of consciousness writing is a hard thing to do. I was going to say that it was a hard thing to get right. However it is just words flowing from my brain to the screen. So can it be wrong?

So what is on my mind today? Not much. At least not much I feel like sharing. That is not much of a start is it?

I have been watching Task Master recently. I know that it has been going for a while but I have only just got to it.

Anyway I am really enjoying it. Although I think it is just an excuse to make celebrities looks stupid.

A quick primer in case you haven’t seen it. On Task Master the five contestants are set a task and whoever completes it the best wins points. What do points mean? Well prizes. Prizes that no one would want, but still.

I chose the picture up there as a wheelbarrow is sometimes used to move the materials needed to complete the task. Now I am having trouble thinking of a specific example. Also I went off script a couple of paragraphs ago.

There was a task where they had to get a toy camel through the smallest gap. For some this involved squeezing it through a fridge handle. For others it involved cutting the toy up and using a blender.

The only thing I was going to say about the show is that it makes you wonder how you would do.

I would not do well.

Every few days I think of rejoining the gym.

It goes in a cycle. First I have the idea. Then I remind myself of the problems with the idea. Then I consider the problems. Then I realise it is a bad idea. Then the cycle starts again.

I want to be fit. (And attractive to women but lets not expect miracles) Yet the actual process of being there is not fun. It is not even fun when watching a TV show.

I also have never liked changing rooms. What I want is a cubicle with a shower and changing space all in one. So you can go in, lock the door, strip, shower, dry, and dress all in privacy. There is nowhere I know that has that kind of arrangement.

Also with this sabbatical thing I have put myself on spending £19.99 a month might not be the best idea in the world. Although if I cut out going for a walk and buying a coffee it might work out the same.

I am probably still scheduling myself for too much. Yet I can’t think of anything that can be removed from my to do list. I drive myself crazy with stuff that I have scheduled for myself!

I probably have been writing a good amount. However not as much as I hoped. Maybe I hoped too much.

Is this entry okay? (Don’t worry that is rhetorical) I am getting to the word count. The next sentence in my draft I can’t even read. [i have litertly no houghhsd – not even a homer simpt yukolay butfd.] Obviously I was making a Homer Simpson comparison but that is all I’ve got.

Later this month I am going to see The Search for Spock. I had a cinema voucher and there were literally no films I was interested in seeing.

The Search for Spock is not my favourite of the Trek films. Still I think it will be special to see it on the big screen. I hope they redo the others (well maybe not Final Frontier.)

I got distracted there for a second and was staring into space. (Irony?)

And that is 500 words.

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Part of the fun of doing these entries, or perhaps it is a processed fun substitute, is that i never know where it is going to go.

It is now a little after 1212. I have been trying to get my stuff done. I set a timer for 5 hours and I have 32 minutes left. For me this is pretty good going.

I have tried so many different ways of organising myself. Each way that I use has some kind of flaw. I know what you are going to say. ‘Nothing and no one is perfect.’ (Well one person I know is but she’s a different matter.)

I am caught between getting stuck on a thing, and thus not doing another thing, and then doing a thing for a very short space of time so that I am not sure I can say I did that thing at all. In other words can reading one page of a novel count as having read for that day?

Still i have managed 5 hours today. I seem to have done a fair amount. If I do the same tomorrow, and maybe Sunday the todo list diary will be completed. In theory.

Incidentally I realise that posting these on a day other than the one in the title is confusing. It is just my way of separating the writing and editing process. *2024-05-25

My addled brain needs to be free from distraction. I say that using a distraction free writing machine while also having my phone right next to me. Doesn’t make a lot of sense does it?

Still I can still make the best of the rest of the day. I have no idea what that looks like.
A shower? Maybe? Yes. I am still in my pajamas. Doing so at this time of day is a bit on the slobby side but still what the hell?

Do you ever feel like you have no thoughts? Like you have no idea what you want to say? Not good for a writer.

I have no idea how this is going to look when I get to the end of it. I just write – vomiting my ideas in to the keyboard – and typing very fast.

That is what I like about the Freewrite (I swear I am not sponsored.) The lack of a spell check means I can just type and there are no little red lines to distract me. One of the words above got so mangled a semicolon snuck in. I guess that just shows how bad I am at fast typing.

The novel continues to go well – although I haven’t got to it today so that sucked.

Anyway this rambling is done for another one of these pointless endeavours. So goodbye for now – see you some other time.

Or not as this is not at 500 words yet. That is what I want as my target. I suppose that words are hard. Yeah. That is all I have for today. I hate my brain.

I just wanted to say that I have checked this post. I really have. Unfortunately my particular combination of dyslexia and dyspraxia makes it really hard for me to spot typos. Please enjoy and I’ll try not to make too many errors.

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