Recovery, Writing and Indulging in stationery..

Diary of Being a Writer; Month 63.

Emma Sachsse
3 min readJul 31, 2023
A Ragdoll cat paw pointing to Chuck Wendig’s book, Gentle Writing Advice

This month I have mostly been recovering from surgery of the feets.

This is the third attempt to make my feet useful members of society. Fingers crossed that it works this time because I really miss going for walks.

I was never a fan of gyms and covid cemented my dislike of sharing a small sweaty space and touching things others had touched with their small sweaty hands. So walking is my preferred form of exercise. My dogs seem to be into it too.

The dog park has been an excellent alternative for one of them. Unfortunately the other one has an indiscriminate and all consuming vicious hatred of all other dogs(humans, cats, bikes etc.) so we tend not to take her.

Sometimes if you are very lucky the other people at the dog park will be nice to talk to or even better wont talk to you at all and you can scribble out some story ideas.

How are the ideas for new projects, you ask?

Why, excellent thank you, I have a million of them.

However, great story ideas with actual form and structure and a ripper plot, not so much. But that’s okay, we can continue to worry away at those details in our spare time. Some will make it and some won’t.

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