In which I take a walk on the grammar side

Not much work on the story today. Finsihed up my 3 day intenstive class and am pretty brain dead. Did some puzzles on the way home. Puzzles keep the braina ctive, but really, they seem to be like reading--a way to keep the noisy part of the brain occupied while the rest of the brain gets some rest. Not quite as addictive a drug as reading, though, since you need to push a pencil around and retain just enough consciousness to form letters or numbers.

Did look up some names, and am rethinking the name of the bad guy, Danny J. Seems the first source I looked at confused two people. I may still call him Danny J., though, as a nickname. Also looked up some other stuff, but nothing much came of it.

But I'm still working my way backward somewhere in the back of my head to the beginning, fleshing out how I want to represent the storyline. I think I'll have enough to go on this time. Last year I had a wonderful setup, but nowhere to take it. Three characters in search of a plot...

I'm finding I'm typing more slowly today than usual. I'm thinking more between letters. My fingers feel a little sore, too, which may be why I'm not flying. Most of me feels a little (or a lot) sore from all the walking and carrying heavy books I've done the past few days. I may say more on that in a few days, or I may not.

Yes, I'm a tease.

I'm also rapidly running out of ideas. I wish I were more comfortable saying things I kind of want to say, but for one thing they aren't about writing, and for another, I hate the idea of saying things I might truly regret saying later. Whining's like that. It feels better when I do it, but I wouldn't want a record of it. That would make me feel petty. Which is why I do try to clamp down on it somewhat. Not that I go back and read any of my entries, but you never know who will stumble across stuff you leave lying around the internet. Ok, now I feel I should go look up lie/lay and make sure I did that one right. That's not one I paid all that much attention to. Unlike, say, the incorrect idea that "I" must always follow the "and" in phrases like "between you and I" and "She told him and I" and the like. That one I know. If you wouldn't say "She told I" then you shouldn't say "She told him and I" and it's also "between you and ME" (You wouldn't say "between we" instead of "between us" now would you?) Sorry, I kept hearing that one in the talk around me today. At least when people are speaking, I don't have to worry about the use of its versus it's....

Which is what I get for having my head buried in grammar most of the week.