Badminton Owch

Played badminton today, for the first time ever (or at least in a very very long time). After some concern in the run-up, mostly over the possibility of humiliating myself, I think it actually went okay.

The aftermath, however, has been a bit of a drag. Mostly, I have been lying in bed, either asleep or complaining to myself about the considerable aches in my knees/neck/head/etc. Having not taken part in any sport more strenuous than pool for two years, my body was not happy.

This, in turn, meant productivity has been minimal. This blog has been about it. I hope to continue playing badminton on Saturdays, although I will start to resent it if those two hours of activity continue to write off whole days.

On A Sunday

Should’ve been working today really. Instead of watching The Guild, The Wire, Glee, Heroes and anything else I could lay my hands on. I also made some food and ate it. Then I uploaded some photos to Facebook. (The origami continues!)

Oh, and I decided to update this blog, obviously. Because it wouldn’t look good if it was just an endless stream of Man Vs Camera photos. But really, that’s not the same as actually writing is it? Still, last weekend I redrafted about a third of a novel, so I suppose I’ll give myself this one.

Should probably have a shower soon before heading out to the pub. (I have gone to about five different pubs though, so if nothing else, this weekend’s been very good for my Foursquare profile….)

Paper Power

After a weekend and a few days of solid work editing my novel, I today uploaded it to Lulu to create a print copy of the second draft. This is only for further proof-reading by others and/or me. I also added in the first draft of my “other” novel because, hell, I may as well work on something else while other people pick through the first one. Pleasingly, this second attempt is much shorter.

Even though I’m only doing this for my own benefit and do plan on trying to get them published normally, I still feel vain and self-indulgent just for using a self-publishing site. I’m so simple.

Oh, I also ordered a copy of Shivering Sands by Warren Ellis because I was already paying Lulu’s shipping charges for a few books, so I figured I might as well. Plus I’d just printed about 1700 pages of stuff by me and that’s got to count as cruelty to trees. This must offset it somehow.

I dids it!

I finished editing the second draft of the novel! Admittedly it has exposed a few problems which I now need to go straight back and fix, but it’s a relatively small job. Hopefully should be done by next weekend, or during it.

But still, mission done! Have celebrated by watching three episodes of The Guild then, um, going back to make these new changes. Hmm.