Challenges in Discipline and Sweating Indoors
Hello there! I started off 2021 feeling more or less pumped up about my goals. Of course, the truth of existence is a little more complicated (especially during a pandemic). I haven't really written or read very much in the past several weeks. I did manage to convince myself that playing JRPGs (Trails of Cold Steel specifically) on the Playstation was a worthy study in storytelling. This may be obvious to everybody, but I'm noticing a trend of child soldiers in a lot of games 😬 However, I did manage to: Get my ass in gear in the last week, revise and submit a piece of flash fiction to an online magazine. Shout out to my partner, the many friends, and readers on Scribophile who helped with this endeavor! I made the expensive and mildly impulsive decision to purchase an indoor exercise bike (no, not the one that produced a horror short as an advertisement) which ended up being very productive since my days have largely been on the couch or my desk chair....