Days of Recovery

Any training program needs recovery time.  Exercise, after all, tears muscles and otherwise stresses the system.  You don’t get better until you give that damage time to heal itself.  For example: after spending seven straight months sprinting toward done on a novel, one should probably take a few days of joyful rest, doing nothing with any particular purpose.

I intended today to be one of those days of rest, but instead, I was so inspired by the book I’m reading that I took a few hours this afternoon to start work on a random short story.  Rushing back into training too soon?  Maybe.  But I’m taking it slow, and more to the point I’m playing around in a world I’ve never touched before, with new characters, a new setting, new issues.  While I do love the Craft Sequence, it’s nice to take a step sideways and break new ground.  And, heck, ‘joyful repose’ can include writing, can’t it?  That’s why I’m in this game after all.