Wow.
I have a better view of how this works now, and I think I'm going to have to take it steady, one week at a time, and check in here at least weekly to share what's going on with it.
I've read the first chapter now and will be starting on it tomorrow with morning pages. I can see there might be some benefit to doing them longhand when I'm used to journaling on the machine, unless I start having serious hand problems I'll do that with it. Easier to close the notebook and not look back than avoid rereading the file.
There turned out to be only one thing that isn't going to be practical -- no way am I capable of a brisk twenty minute walk. I can stay on my feet for two minutes tops. I'm open to any sit-still suggested alternate activity for that. What would be comparable to taking a twenty minute walk?
I wish I had a window that was low enough I could sit and watch out the window, that might be a good one. The weather isn't good enough yet for going outside watching the yard, or I'd try that. Nope, nothing's coming up for that one.
I have no idea what that experience is like for the undisabled.
But I've got an imagination. I may substitute... a timed twenty minute daydream without writing any of it down. Just sit up, awake, and do the thing I got picked on every single grade school day for doing -- go roaming in my mind on things that aren't my worries, just the weird daydreams like having wings, or the school blowing up and civilization breaking down, various things I used to daydream about, having a pet tyrannosaur, running away to sea. It can be a mental twenty minute walk.
And not write it while doing it, just do it, if any really good story idea comes up I'm sure I'll remember it afterward.
I've read the first chapter now and will be starting on it tomorrow with morning pages. I can see there might be some benefit to doing them longhand when I'm used to journaling on the machine, unless I start having serious hand problems I'll do that with it. Easier to close the notebook and not look back than avoid rereading the file.
There turned out to be only one thing that isn't going to be practical -- no way am I capable of a brisk twenty minute walk. I can stay on my feet for two minutes tops. I'm open to any sit-still suggested alternate activity for that. What would be comparable to taking a twenty minute walk?
I wish I had a window that was low enough I could sit and watch out the window, that might be a good one. The weather isn't good enough yet for going outside watching the yard, or I'd try that. Nope, nothing's coming up for that one.
I have no idea what that experience is like for the undisabled.
But I've got an imagination. I may substitute... a timed twenty minute daydream without writing any of it down. Just sit up, awake, and do the thing I got picked on every single grade school day for doing -- go roaming in my mind on things that aren't my worries, just the weird daydreams like having wings, or the school blowing up and civilization breaking down, various things I used to daydream about, having a pet tyrannosaur, running away to sea. It can be a mental twenty minute walk.
And not write it while doing it, just do it, if any really good story idea comes up I'm sure I'll remember it afterward.