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My daughter is going out for cross country this fall and has started running every weekday at the team course. Can’t really go to a great cross country running course and not run, right? So, Susan and I are running about 3 miles every day now and really enjoying it.

I have decided to write more than once a month as I dig out of a deep dark place.

Steve is typing away on his macbook, flying through a 20 page first day goal in his Script Frenzy 2010 effort.

I’ll try to update this blog with my progress throughout the month-long attempt to write a 100+ page screenplay in 30 days.

Since that is about 3.3 pages per day, and I’m already sitting on 20, I feel pretty good. But I know how easy it is to lose momentum. Add in a serious sickness, with 3 days of fever, and now allergies on top of that, and this will be tough.

I’ve been gradually adding to my mileage. Now I run 3 miles a day, just about every day. My daily running routine is to make every day a running day, with the knowledge that usually one or two days each week will turn into a skip day. This routine keeps me on track, since an occasional skip day won’t throw me off track, because the next day is always a running day.

Reading has been a little slow, I couldn’t get through “Your Heart Belongs to Me”. I just never could care about the protagonist, and just gave up. I’m going to try another Koontz book, “Velocity” next.

My daughter ran her very first Half Marathon today. See the full story on http://wardwardward.com.

Just finished the audiobook House of Thunder by Dean Koontz.  This was the first fiction audiobook I’ve listened to, and I enjoyed it.  The book was almost about to lose me since it took at least 4 CD’s to get going, but finally got pretty interesting near the end with a plot twist that would have made more sense if I had read the book years ago.

A writing book that I have been reading used Koontz as an example for his excellent plots.  The plot of this book took way too long to capture my interest.