Due an impending date with Captain Back Pain, I can’t think of anything. A little panicked and annoyed that this seems to have been caused by the fact that this house is being quite at a balmy 80 degrees. I’ve written two posts that I deleted. I have a poem showing up later, but I was trying to think of something more prose and meaty.
So, anybody know of something I can write about? Taking subject requests for the week.
Legends of Windemere 
How about a post on fighting off guilt when you’re sidelined with pain or illness? How do you justify taking time off from writing when you simply don’t feel up to it?
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Oh, I sooo hear ya. Too hot. Can’t think. I was up ALL night second guessing myself. And last week I told YOU to cheer up. Now it’s my turn to fight the depression bear.
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I’m hoping things improve, but it’s looking like my lower back is going to keep me out of action for the day. I’m dehydrated, which caused the muscles to lock up.
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Yucky.
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Hot, in pain, and dehydrated is a terrible way to start the week. I hope things are going to get better for you soon. How about another post about being a writer and a parent?
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I can try that. Need to figure out another angle or part to go with it.
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You can do it! 🙂
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I got nothing but love.
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wish I could help. I’m right there with you!!! 😦
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I’m sorry pain has derailed you. And since you’re facing pain, why not write about the imperiled hero–how to make your pain (your experience of it) his gain (using your pain to inform your hero’s suffering)?
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I’m doing better already, which is good. I can never write when I’m in pain, so maybe a post on what one can do when bedridden and too out of it to do novel writing.
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Sorry about the pain. For dehydration drink electrolytes… Gator Aid is good but fattening, Pedialyte is non-caloric but disgusting. It’s hot here too. I don’t have central air and we’re expecting 39C (102F) with the humidity today.
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Thanks. Already downed 3 water bottles and I’m feeling better. I think stress did me in too. So, I think I know what the underlying problem is.
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Glad you’re feeling better 🙂
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Much. A lot of water, a little AC, and destressing got me out of this in record time.
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How about: A quick short story about an author who is dehydrated and in pain but must finish a story or the madman fan who broke into his house demanding that the story be written his way will shoot him
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With the pain that turned up, I think I’d have asked him to aim for the lower back.
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Pain is no fun! I hope you get feeling better soon! How about you blog about things that make you smile…like your favorite book or song, or your favorite memory so far this year?
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Good one. A ‘Favorite Thing’ post along with the required music video. 😀
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Yes, yes! Plus I am sure writing about a favorite thing will make you feel better even if it cannot take away all your pain.
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It will. Hard to type for long bouts of time until this passes. Might wait for after the pain goes away.
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Ugh, I hope it lets up soon, I understand that back pain thing, that is no fun at all. Rest up and until then grab your notebook and do all your writing there 🙂
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I’m back to typing levels, so I’ll see how this goes. Probably use my energy on the book.
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I haven’t read your first book and maybe you answer some of these questions and I’ll just have to find out later, but I would like to know more about Fizzle. Already, I am in love with him. He is adorable. I love Tolkien, but beyond that I have not read a lot of fantasy…some fantasy-like sci-fi, but that is about it. I know he likes apples. What are dragons supposed to eat? Do mean dragons kill for sport or for food? Do they hatch or are they born live? Does he/she have any siblings? is it a he or a she? What happened to his parents? Where did he come from? How old is he? How long do dragons live? Tell me more if you can.
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Sounds like I need to do a Fizzle interview and explain the dragons of Windemere.
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That would be just Dandy…educate me.
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Can you wait until tomorrow?
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Sure! This is going to be fun 🙂 Hope you are feeling better soon! Back pain and toothaches are the worst.
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I had this sudden fear of getting both at the same time.
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OMG wouldn’t want that!
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No universe could be that cruel.
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Pain sucks 😦 As for post ideas … how about an epic rhyming couplet poem about werepandas?
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Sure . . . what’s a rhyming couplet? I’m just a dabbler at poems. I don’t really know the terms and forms.
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I might have made that up, lol. I believe it’s when there are two lines, and the last words rhyme. For example:
Hark! I sing of the blogger Charles Yallowitz
His posts are so great, other bloggers can’t follow itz.
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Ah . . . I’ve now learned that my name should never be in a rhyme. 😉
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Gasp! What are you implying? My rhyming skills are flawless!
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They are, but my last name is atrocious.
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Union Jack. You odd fella. You know you are old when your back goes out more often than you do.
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It’s not the years, but the mileage. Still have more flexibility than other people my age and in my level of shape. That level is barely.
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😦 Let’s see – so…you wrote already the gun to the head story. Did that help? If not…suppose writing about getting a massage.
This back is becoming a problem 😦 Are you getting up from your chair for 15 minutes – at least – an hour? Hope you feel better
Ellespeth
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I’m getting up from the chair and moving around. This seems to be dehydration and stress induced. It’s in the 80’s and muggy at the coolest points of the day and I wasn’t too smart with the water the day before. I truly despise summer at times.
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