Went to the gym Wednesday. I went a little earlier in the evening and the gym was a little busier. Managed to do the new normal routine, minus the Roman Chair Curls. The weather has been stormy, with cloudbursts dropping a half an inch of rain in less than a half an hour--it has cleared up a little today, which makes inside cooler and more pleasant than the outside (although, if the winds continue to gust, the gazebo shouldn't be too hot.
On the writing front, I finished up a 34,000 word novelette that had been languishing on my hard drive after a particularly harsh critique. Looking back, the critique wasn't harsh so much as it was the way I had purposely written one of the characters happened to press one particularly vocal critic's buttons. In any case, I took a look at the manuscript again to clean up some minor, random things, and I sent it out. I've started to have a computer read manuscripts to me, which is more useful than I ever realized it could be for catching repeated words, like "the the;" and missing words that my brain is automatically supplying when I read to myself, like "she closed door;" and phrases that just plain sound strange or confusing, usually because I've tried to edit a complex, compound sentence.
I'm also pleased that I've managed to keep a number of stories in the mail, so that count is up as well. Now I have to write something new....
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