[Caelum's Scrapbook] Use Your Words.

by **Estrellir Konrath** on February 22nd, 2015, 12:44 pm

Caelum wrote:
How To Write About Characters Who Are Smarter Than You

This exactly what I've been looking for ever since I started writing this PC. Thanks so much for sharing!

by **Gossamer** on February 22nd, 2015, 3:18 pm

The article was wonderful. It reminds me of the movie Ever After with Drew Barrymore, where she was locked in the basement and they ran to get Leonardo da Vinci. He took one look at the door and rather than try to open the lock, he simply slipped it off its hinges easy as pie? I think we can demonstrate genius even better than dialog could about the level of his intelligence.

by **Caelum** on February 24th, 2015, 5:38 pm

I'm so glad y'all liked that article. I got a lot from it too.

Forward Motion

I used to hate running. It was something I did because I wanted to stay in shape but completely sucked at any other sport save for swimming. I am a complete klutz and have a permanent case of the dropsies. So I ran, and I also swam because I live on an island and life on the water means swimming is second nature, but I didn’t like it really. I just liked it more than the other options. I also used to smoke and that obviously didn’t help the whole running thing in any way. When I got sick last year, I had to stop. I was physically unable to walk for a week and to walk without assistance for at least two more weeks. When I was finally able to retire the old-lady walker, I was still just sort of shuffling. So obviously running was out.

A few months went by and I was released to essentially “power walk”, but real running was still a no-go. I did that as often as I could, but it wasn’t the same and I hated it even more than I hated running. I only kept up with it because I was determined to get my strength back and by then I thought my prescribed physical therapy was a joke. (Before that point, I thought it was an unconquerable country; but things change, and heal.) Then I had another bump in the health and so it got pushed out again. By the time I was released to run again the first day was so terrible that I had to stop halfway through and sit down on the side of the road and, yeah, actually cry. I’m pretty sure I wept. We’re talking scare-the-neighborhood-kids ugly cry. It hurt. My body wasn’t working. Everything was different, and harder.

Up until recently I only ran sporadically. It hurt too much to do every day or even often, and not just physically. I had a much, much more minor thing done by the doctor a couple weeks ago and was released this past Friday to do “whatever” again. Monday, I ran. And, guys? I don’t know what all has changed, though I can make a few guesses as to some of them, but it was wonderful. It was all it used to be, and more.

I didn’t hate it. I loved it. I wasn’t as good and couldn’t go as long or as far, but I still loved it. I ached but felt great afterwards. So I did it again this morning before work, and the grace of it stayed. I feel good. Lighter. And propelled in the right direction again.

So, hey. I need some new music. Anyone have any suggestions as to good songs to run to?

by **Keene Ward** on February 24th, 2015, 5:48 pm

Always this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2RIlsbOvA

by **Ball** on February 24th, 2015, 6:30 pm

I run to something from like Shinedown, Slipknot, MCR, GNR... SOmething with a decent tempo

by **Rosela** on February 24th, 2015, 7:56 pm

Glad to hear you're up and about! Dramatic soundtrack music always gets me going when I'm sick of everything I listen to in my spare time. The only downside is that it does take a bit of research to find good ones. Destiny of the Chosen, Kara Kul, and World Without End are a few of my favorites off the top of my head.

by **Traverse** on February 24th, 2015, 10:34 pm

So I feel like everyone gets into a different groove with their music and exercise. If you like Rosela's stuff I would recommend Two Steps From Hell as well, no better way to feel epic while exercising lol. These are a few of the songs that always get me pumped:

Electronica:

The Prodigy - Voodoo People

Pendulum - Crush

Clean Bandit - Rather Be

A bit more Pop-e:

Fall Out Boy - Immortals

And an alternative spin

Nickel Creek - Smoothie Song

And those...are that haha.

by **Keene Ward** on February 24th, 2015, 10:41 pm

Of course, if you really want to just crush a run, you finish that mother lover off with this sucker. lol

by **Caelum** on February 27th, 2015, 5:14 pm

Great choices, guys! I've already downloaded them all.

And, uh, in case anyone needs a reason to go on, I give you Llamas On The Loose, the Musical. I was watching this story the other day, highly amused. And now I'm just dead. Deadeadead.

by **Keene Ward** on February 27th, 2015, 5:25 pm

Oh my lanta. That was crazy! Those llamas were just booking it all over town hahaha! The ending was by far too ridicous haha, lasso!