This is going to be one of those random blog posts. I am sitting here at my dinner table with a million thoughts running through my head. Missy and I just returned back from a wonderful mini-vacation yesterday and since then I haven't really been highly motivated. We went to the store yesterday and I wrote chapter 10 of my book but other than that I haven't accomplished too much.
Not that I have had much on my agenda. Today we are doing Max Effort Squat and Deadlift training but I am doing my best to put that off as late as possible. This seems to be fine by Missy as evidenced by her taking a 3 hour nap just now. I cannot blame her, if I wasn't knee deep in finishing a book I am reading I would of napped as well. We will still train tonight it will just probably be a little later than normal which is not a big deal.
The book I am reading is "God King" by Graham McNeil. It is the third book in a trilogy based upon the founder of the Empire, Sigmar, in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. It is a hobby that began as a miniature tabletop battle game that later expanded to include a role playing game, video games, books, and even a movie (if you count its sister setting Warhammer 40,000). The original tabletop game has continued through multiple editions (it is on the 8th Edition now) and has a wide and varied background that has changed somewhat significantly over the years. The book is not bad, certainly not the best but entertaining.
I banged out Chapter 10 of my novel tonight and began work on Chapter 11. This is actually a rewrite as I had already written Chapters 10-13 but was very disappointed in them. I normally do not edit my books until I complete them as otherwise I simply will never finish because I am very critical of my work. I had to make an exception this time as the direction I took the story left me seriously unhappy with my work. It was so bad I hadn't touched my book for months because I lost all motivation to write it. I am infinitely more happy with the rewrite I did and I added elements that I feel increase the quality of the book several times over.
As well as writing Chapter 10 I wrote a 3 part excerpt from the book recently that I posted on this blog. The excerpt actually takes place much later in the book, a part I will probably not get around to writing for many months. The excerpts will be a later chapter and will stand pretty much as I wrote them on this blog barring any major change of directions.
Likewise I wrote another chapter detailing some new characters that I am not sure where I am going to put in the book. That is one of the things I love about writing, watching my own story evolve in my head. Every night when I go to sleep the story plays out in my head like a movie and it really gives me a chance to see what works and what doesn't.
Sometimes something as simple as a small part of a dream or a painting I might see or any number of things might inspire me to think of something new I want to put in the story. The basic story outline has always remained the same but I continuously change minor details.
For instance in chapter 2 the original story outline just vaguely describes the characters of Balimor and Neycara entering a refugee encampment and finding some items that were stolen in chapter 1. As I wrote about the people in the encampment I just started typing about an old hermit approaching the pair. As I typed it I had no idea if he was a beggar, an assassin, a friend, a foe, or any number of things. On a whim I wrote an entire encounter that has turned out to be one of my favorite so far. I didn't alter the original outline what so ever but by writing a single line I significantly changed the story in a subtle way.
Tonight is Max Effort Squat and Deadlift Training. Tonight we are starting a 2 week wave of doing good mornings to a 5 rep max. Since Missy is new to doing heavy good morning I wanted to keep them to a 5 rep max rather than work to a 3 rep max which I more commonly do. I rarely go for a max single on good mornings because I have found almost 100% of the time what ever I can do for one rep I can grind out 3 reps. This is our first week so we will work up to a very heavy but conservative 5 rep max. This will allow us to beat that record next week. Tonight's training will look like this.
Work to 5 rep max Good Morning
3 sets of 5 reps squats
3 Sets of 10 Reps Romanian Deadlifts
3 Sets of 10 Reps Bent Over Rows
3 Sets of Ab Work
For dinner tonight we are having 93/7 lean ground turkey with either rice or potatoes on the side and a salad. We will probably train after dinner so I might down a BCAA drink after training but then again I might not.
I am still going to write parts 2 and 3 to my trip up. I am just too lazy to load the pictures from the camera. I will probably do it tomorrow.
And as I side note I want to congratulate Missy. Over the past couple of months training she was improved head and shoulders and shown the kind of dedication and desire that you rarely ever find in someone. She has been as much of a pleasure to train as she has been to fall in love with.
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