Writing on...

This book is coming along nicely. I had to stop and rearrange a couple of chapters that weren't working chronologically, but once I got that figured out, I've gotten a couple of chapters done just today alone. I'm getting close to finishing that first draft, and once I get that done, it all should go much quicker. I hope.

Dennis isn't feeling well today. Every since he had his radiation treatments, he's been fighting hormonal symptoms. Like hot flashes. I remember when I had them. I took some herbal therapies and those helped me a lot. However, Dennis has a weird body that doesn't respond to meds or herbs or anything. Taking a narcotic is like taking an M&M for pain. It just doesn't work for him. Sleeping meds don't work, and herbals don't work for his "hot flashes." 

He tells everyone I don't have any sympathy for him. If I remember right, he didn't have much sympathy for me, either. But it's not that I don't have sympathy for him. I just don't broadcast it to everyone I know. 

He's doing better than he did last year. Then he'd tell everyone about his intimate health issues, which was quite embarrassing to me. And he'd tell the same stories every week. A little Alzheimer's maybe? 

The kids are starting to see that in him, too. He tells the same fishing stories to them and they are starting to finish his sentences for him. I don't do that. I just let him drone on, mumbling, and halfway tune him out. Of course, with my hearing deficit, a lot of it I really don't hear.

I'm not wanting to complain, I just sometimes need to hear some new stories. After 55 years together, it's rare when I hear anything new.

Back to my writing. I've based a couple of my characters off of people I know well. Not exactly everything, but just little anecdotes will show up in some dialogue somewhere, or certain qualities, good or bad will sneak into my characters' personalities.

Writing gives me a chance to live in an alternate world, where I have control over what happens to my favorite characters and I can kill off the bad when they tick me off. What an awesome power!

I'm starting chapter 25 tomorrow afternoon (or Monday) and the next few chapters will build to the climax.  I can't wait!

For tonight, I'm going to relax with my favorite game, Wizard101.

Have a happy weekend.