Fic recs + general state of me + hilarious dictation

[luzula]

I am getting health problems from coronavirus isolation, but not actual coronavirus: I have aches and pains in my hands from too much computer work, and also, all the running I did to avoid those aches has given me what Wikipedia tells me are called shin splints in English? I mean, they're not terribly bad, because I stopped running as soon as I felt them, but I have a hard time judging when I can go back to running, or not. Advice welcome.

I'm also trying dictation software, but it's hard, because apparently my thought process when writing is dependent on typing. /o\ I'm also recording sound files sometimes instead of writing emails. I do want to share with you the hilarious result of using the dictation software, and then my mom calling me, and the software picking up the Swedish instead:

NT dog manusha doing is 50 this country since if there is Mr. Boston I'm so sorry I didn't see you madames meant cheesecake man yeah

Cheesecake, man! Yeah.

In other news, I have 16,000 words so far on my new fic, which is chock-full of UST and promises to be as long as the one I already posted. But! I am glad to say that other authors have also been busy writing Flight of the Heron fic:

When the Fighting is Over (4750 words) by Garonne is a post-canon fix-it story which begins with Ewen in France and is full of beautifully written longing.

At Ruthven Barracks (3299 words) by regshoe is a missing scene early in the book where Ewen begins to realize the cost of war.

In the beginning of December last year, there were 8 works posted in the fandom. Now there are 21. : D

Comments

[isis]

I love the text-to-speech whimsy. Even without translation it can be entertaining - B pretty much only sends me texts through text-to-speech, and usually doesn't bother correcting anything that is mis-transcribed if it's still understandable.

Shin splints is a symptom of TMTS ("too much too soon") and so usually you just need to take a few days off and then restart at lower intensity - run more slowly, don't run as much distance, run less frequently, and increase all these slowly. The general guideline I follow is to run at easy pace (so that you can carry on a conversation with an imaginary friend - and I test this by talking out loud, so maybe people think I'm crazy!) and when I start running after a break to run no more than every other day at no more than 40 minutes at a time, and to increase my weekly total distance only every three weeks. Good luck! Running's what's keeping me sane now, too.

[luzula]

Thanks for the tips on how to deal with it, that's very helpful! : )