Watching the world spin

One of these days when I'm suffering from greater-than-normal insomnia I'll remember that I should check for a fever whether or not I'm feeling fine. That almost always turns out to be the culprit.

I'm working on several review products at the moment: the "Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names", which seeems like it's also going to be a pretty cool way to find names for RPG and other fictional characters, although a few of those names I wouldn't give to a real child unless I wanted him to get into fights at school. I'm also reading "The Creative Dreamer", which is turning out to be a very cool book, although it'll take the full review to really explain. Finally, I'm playing around with a piece of software for writers called "Storyweaver", and hopefully soon I'll be able to let you know how that's going.

I found an incredibly amazing quote in that creative dreamer book that I just have to share with you:

You never paint what you see or think you see. You paint with a thousand vibrations the blow that struck you. --Nicholas de Stael

I could babble endlessly about the insight in that sentence, but I think it makes its point with far more beauty than anything I could add.

To add to that core conditioning book review I did recently, I discovered just how much good those exercises do me when I happened to skip them for a week. It wasn't until I woke up with my back a bit sore that I realized that it hadn't been sore since I'd started the exercises, which was the unusual part. So now I'm making sure to do them every 2-3 days.


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