Idle Thinking Freewrite

So I've been blogging light recently, mostly because I've been hard at training for the 3-Day, something that's going to take much more effort on my part than I realized when I signed up for it. That's the way these things usually go. I'm going to have an unintentional break now, though, as we figured out that I strained a muscle in my ankle, possibly during the Marymoor to Bothell walk a week ago, and I've been ordered to stay off my feet for three days. Maybe that will allow me to catch up with comics blogging... but probably not. I'm just not as interested in reviewing comics right now as usual. Sometimes my interests drift. There are very few constants in what I love at any given time. Certain music maybe, certain fiction... but even then, I sometimes go through phases where I simply cannot read books for awhile. I have to force myself to get through even a chapter, and don't enjoy it when I do. Then a few days later I try again and find that it's the best thing I've ever read. Well, maybe not the best thing, but certainly more readable than I would have thought from my earlier reaction. Just recently, a couple of weeks ago, I found that I had absolutely no interest in any comic book at all. None. I couldn't read them. I would pick one up, get through a page or two, and just put it down. However, I had a huge desire to reread (yes, reread) the Wormhole Nexus books by Bujold, particularly Memory. How nutty is that? Then I noticed a blog mention of The Spriggan Mirror and suddenly wanted to read all the Ethshar books in order. I don't even know if I've read all of them in the first place, though I'm pretty sure I managed to catch most of them. I've got a huge stack of Free Comic Book Day comics I still haven't gotten through, and last week's comics... and the week before that... I think the only book I've read recently was Aquaman, and that wasn't very good. Better than last month's, but that's not saying much. Maybe reading all that Manga threw off my tastes or something. Heh. I found an excellent exercise program. Fansubbed anime. I have to concentrate on the subtitles, so I don't stress about walking. I got a few episodes of the fansubbed Hikaru No Go to watch, and really enjoyed them. I don't want to watch too far ahead, though. I'm enjoying reading Hikaru as it comes out from Shonen Jump. My time's up already... I'll put in a few links and post this. I'm writing slower than ever these days.

Note: A freewrite is when you write nonstop for exactly ten minutes. It's a type of writing exercise I used to do a lot, but don't do so much anymore. If you do it correctly, you don't spend any time self-editing, you just write, and the result is a non-linear collection of your thoughts. It's particularly useful if you are suffering from writer's block.