My Actifit Report Card: November 5 2019

A little less than twenty thousand steps today, which might come back to haunt me particularly in light of the fact that I went out to a dinner with family that included stuff I shouldn’t have eaten (but did, and it was delicious, and I regret nothing).

Didn’t do as much as I hoped to today; it wasn’t that I was unproductive, just that I didn’t get stuff done so much as stuff worked on.

Another day of NaNoWriMo. I’m fairly certain that my method of waiting until the very end of the day to write is making my work unintentionally hilarious to readers who might find all sorts of interesting and funny errors. It’s also funny how I occasionally just use words that I didn’t consciously know existed, which either means that my tired old brain has a lot of gaps or I have such a grasp of the English language that I can just think up words that follow the rules of English so well that they already exist.

I’m pretty sure it’s the former. I can’t recall ever seeing a word like varicolored, but it obviously exists because it’s in the dictionary (because when would the dictionary ever lie to us?) and I used it because I’m a pretentious writer at times and I try to avoid saying “had a lot of different colors” when there’s a fancy word that means the same thing but might convince a single reader that I have a tremendous vocabulary.

Really, one of the joys of just pushing myself to write is that I find that I enjoy the story quite a bit (even if not the writing process as much as I do when I’m able to take my time), and I keep doing things that pleasantly surprise me.

Lest I sound arrogant, I should point out that of the ~1600 words for NaNoWriMo every day, about 100 of the ones I write are any good, and the rest are execrable filler to try and get my two good ideas for any given section of the story into place.

Daily Activity, Walking