So somehow I did something to my knees a month or so ago and the pain just wouldn’t go away, so I finally went to the doctor this morning. He poked and prodded around and determined that it was a lingering inflammation for which he gave me a cortisone shot in each knee. Within a half-hour or so my knees stopped hurting almost completely and in my euphoria at being able to walk down the stairs pain-free, I forgot to remember the part where the doctor told me that the pain would get worse in the evening and probably wouldn’t really start to get better into tomorrow or the next day. He wasn’t lying about the “it’ll get worse” part. Let’s just hope that he wasn’t lying about the “then it’ll get better” part, either.

It’s been a strange sort of day ’round these parts, so I decided to give myself a one-day break from NaNo. I was barely feeling it last night, even though I managed to pound out the 1,667 words, and I wasn’t feeling it AT ALL tonight, so I decided to give it a miss and hope that inspiration comes back to me tomorrow. It’s just no good forcing it when it’s not coming. I’m really pleased with how the book is going so far, and I’m not at the point yet where I need words for words’ sake, so I think it’s better left alone for a bit.

The day wasn’t completely unproductive, though, and I did get some Mosaic Minds editing done this afternoon. I’ve still got quite a bit more to do, but I think I’ll be able to make the November 15 deadline with little or no trouble. As luck would have it, the fiction section was complete even before the last issue went live, so that’s been one less thing for me to worry about. I am having a bit of trouble with the upcoming theme, I have to admit. It’s “Serenity,” and anyone who knows me knows that I don’t know much about serenity.