Fancy Keyboards

Today was bit of lazy day, as Sundays tend to be. I was up late working on my mentorship assignment until about midnight. After that, I didn’t feel tired, so I stayed up until 2 am catching up on YouTube videos and playing some online chess.

I am slowly catching up to the overall word quota for this month’s writing challenge. I’m still seeing a daily increase in my average written words. Today I continued writing the longer short story I started writing last week. It’s getting closer to the end, but there are still many scenes left to write, not that I have set out plan for the plot. It’s just a feeling you get after writing over 70 short stories that the ending is near.

I will confess that I am excited to write something new and terrified at the same time. Starting a story is probably the hardest part for me. It’s the initial setting, character and the characters’ initial problem/conflict that takes me a bit to get into.

This longer story is the fourth story I have written since the beginning of the year. I’ll have to decide if I start my novel next, write another attempt for the magazine since this story turned out to be too long, or write a new story to enter into the Writers of the Future contest.

Either way, I’ll have to get something started right away as the 2026 words per day quota never takes a day off. The beast needs to constantly be fed.

I’ve been using one of my fancier mechanical keyboards to write. I use it for my blog and for the longer short story. It has a bit of THOCK-i-ness to it, and it feels good to type on. It is called the Nuphy Air 75 V2 and I replaced the keycaps with their backlit option.

Most stories I write on my X1 Carbon by Lenovo. Lenovo’s have amazing keyboards that are a delight to use. The other good thing about the keyboard is it is very silent. If I brought my Nuphy to work I would get a lot of noise complaints from my colleagues.

I introduced my wife to “The Night Manager” series. It stars Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie as well as many other great actors. Talking about you, Olivia Colman.

It’s based off the John le Carré novel of the same name, and you know me and spy stuff. Happily, my wife also enjoyed the episodes, which is great because almost 10 years after the first series ended, they have made a second one. Which means more spy TV episodes for me to enjoy.

But overall, I am happy that even on a lazy Sunday, I can still spit out over 2000 words. There are days when I struggle to get to the writing chair. But it seems to me that as this challenge progresses the effort to get myself going decreases. It’s just a tiny amount of progress. Almost invisible looking at it from a day-to-day perspective. But from the vantage point of the weekly perspective, it becomes visible.