First, a video/song that is stuck in my head. Felt the need to share:
I’ve been out of sorts since Thursday and doing my best to imitate being human. Not sure how successful I was. The reason for this is a nasty ear infection combined with a bunch of earwax that decided to camp out on the eardrum. For anyone unsure of what this means, I’ll sum it up this way. Hurts like a nail to the side of the head, equilibrium is shot, taste buds kind of off, deaf as a roll of toilet paper, exhaustion, confused, and it took an hour to write one paragraph for a Fizzle scene. People seem to enjoy telling me what to pour into my head when I have ear problems too. Well that and one friend reminding me of the brain bugs from Wrath of Kahn. Needless to say, I haven’t done much writing since then. I had to rush to a late night clinic, which helped out. Then I returned today because the pain was getting worse and they flushed the ear. Feeling much better if not a slight bit waterlogged. Might finish that Fizzle thing tonight if two nights of terrible sleep wasn’t gnawing on my energy.
For more comedy, anybody that follows my non-author page on Facebook might have seen that this happened on the 10 year anniversary. Plus side, my wife and I didn’t have anything planned until next weekend. The reason is because the whirling dervish that I call a son had his first tumbling show today:
So we delayed everything to watch this. His ADHD was in true form this time. Put him in front of a crowd and he doesn’t care about orders. He’ll just smile, jump, laugh, and try to sit with us instead of going with his group. All in good fun and he enjoyed the Friendly’s lunch. Hoping to get him into more gymnastics come the Fall.
Those are the big events of this . . . wait! I forgot about Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts, which came out on Monday for 99cents and I’m sure everyone who loves me has bought a copy. That really just means I bought a copy, so I hope those who politely tolerate my existence did the same. The short story had a great first day and has kind of fallen asleep since Thursday. Man, that day simply hated me. A big thank you to everyone who has bought a copy and written a review. I really appreciate it.
I will be a rarity next weekend! So look for me on several guest posts, which I will comment on come Sunday or Monday. I might be retweeting and responding to stuff on my blog with the help of my phone. I’m just not allowed to bring the laptop. Why is this in bigger font? I hit a button by accident and am too lazy to fix it.
That’s better. So what are the goals for the week?
- Laundry and packing on Thursday.
- Getting to ‘vacation’ spot in one piece on Friday.
- See ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Jurassic World’. The first one was eliminated due to me not being able to hear things.
- Continue writing Book 11 and pray I can get a good clip going to meet my June deadline.
- Figure out why the screen keeps zooming in and a new window opens. Am I touching the finger pad?
- Fiddle a bit with whatever the idea on Monday is. Can’t even figure out the genre, but it might be Post-Apocalyptic. Not sure what counts as Dystopian.
- Heal completely.
- Try for some biking, which one should never do with an ear problem. Not unless they surround the thing with pillows.
- Ponder the existence of the pinky toe. Do we really need it?
Legends of Windemere 
Ha! I can’t help but picture you shouting when reading the bigger font!
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Makes sense. Been yelling a lot with the busted ear. Strange to be speaking and not hear my own voice.
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I am reading family of the Tri Rune and would like to see some time spent on Nyx and Sari as they have developed into friends.
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I’ll look for a few of those. Aim for the clean ones since Sari loves to make Nyx blush.
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I hope your ear is feeling better! I hope you get a lot of writing done as well. 🙂
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Thanks. The ear is doing better. Still a little clogged, but I guess that will only take some time.
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Who takes precedence in Book 11 – are you at a stage where you can share one of the characters with us as they take the new journey? Also, I agree with John – I’m fascinated by Nyx and Sari, so that would be fun 😀
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2 characters take precedence, but it’s in a way that spoils chunks of Book 10. They also kind of take 2 others with them. It’s one of those books where a bunch of subplots get cleaned up and a few things turn on their head. 10 and 11 are definitely going to be hard ones to pull from. Thankfully, Nyx and Sari have a lot of early interactions that I can pull from.
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Excellent! I’ll look forward to scenes with Nyx and Sari then. By the way. I really enjoyed Ichabod Brooks. I’ll be writing a review over the next few days for the weekend. It was a grand and exciting adventure 😀
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Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Now I have to find a good Sari/Nyx scheme for a week from this Tuesday. Thinking about it, the two end up having lengthy conversations more than fighting alongside each other. I think because Sari tends to be going off on her own since she’s the thief. A lot of their stuff that I can remember are downtime conversations and goofing off.
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That’s always enjoyable. There’s nothing like the fun of seeing how characters interact with each other 😀
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Going to be harder than I thought. Sari debuts in Book 3, but spends 2 books away from the entire group and another separated from Nyx. Leaves me with a lot less material to work with. Like I said, she tends to go off on her own.
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Maybe you could just share them separately then – over the space of a few weeks. I’d like to know what Sari gets up to when she goes off on her own!
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I found one joint conversation that might require an ‘adult warning’. Shows how the two of them interact and reveals more about Sari. Think I’ll use that and then grab other scenes as they come about. 🙂
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Awesome! Looking forward to it 😀
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Hopefully it works and I can post it. Having trouble with the chopping down and keeping it coherent.
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I’m sure it will. I have faith! 😀
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Bless your heart. I can surely relate. I have a problem with recurrent ear infections and see an ENT. It’s enough to make you as crazy as a dog with ear mites. Hope it’s over for you soon.
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I hope it ends soon too. The plugged up feeling is the worst part of it right now. Glad the pain is gone. Hope you get rid of the recurrent ones.
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I’ve had the earwax issue, so I feel your pain. Couldn’t hear Much.
Bought Ichabod!
Your son is adorable!
I emailed you my character suggestion.
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Thanks. Ear is feeling better, but I’m still reeling from a few nights of bad sleep. Don’t think I’m going to tackle the exercise bike.
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So weird, I, too, have some ear trouble these days, although it’s not earwax. The doctor said it’s liquid getting trapped behind the eardrum. Must be that time of the year.
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I thought it was liquid too, but apparently I was wrong. Hope you get better quickly.
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I hate it when I hit send before I finish the comment 🙂
I loved mini-Charles. Are we sure it’s ADHD and not just sugar high? 😉
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He doesn’t eat that much sugar and he’s been diagnosed. I recently read an article that said the ‘sugar makes kids more hyper than they usually are’ isn’t actually true. Anyway, he’s more high functioning autism than ADHD according to the paperwork. Need to read it again since both were mentioned.
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Based on personal experience with my nephews and nieces, I’d say the sugar link sure is there 🙂
But that’s me being my usual empirical self 🙂
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The odd thing is that I’ve given my son a lot of sweets at times. At first I thought it was true, but then he started doing it when he wasn’t having them. I wonder if it was more perception or having told him about the sugar making him hyper. If a kid knows about the supposed connection then they might ham it up. I also wonder why this sugar hyperactivity is only found in kids.
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If there is a correlation, it might be because they have a different metabolism. But you’re right, they might also be hamming it a bit.
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Just typed in ‘is sugar hyperactivity a myth’ and got a bunch of articles. I think one of them said it came from an old study that noticed something and hasn’t been repeated in following tests.
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Okay.
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Feel better my friend, I know exactly how painful ear problems can be…you have my sympathies.
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Thanks. It’s almost cleared. Just need it gone by Friday when I have a long drive ahead of me.
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