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Mission 44

The blog formerly known as "The Word Made Fresh." I'm still talking about my writing here, but the focus is now my journey to end obesity, reverse type-2 diabetes, and lead a happier and more productive life...all by my 44th birthday.

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September 22, 2013

Another blog about the life of another writer. Coming October 1. See you then.

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Day Unknown. Closing out the second phase of this blog.

April 11, 2019

Hello, friends! When I first began this blog, I imagined that it would be a daily record of this whole experience that I call Mission 44 . I wanted to share successes and record how I achieved them. I wanted to create something that was a reference that I could look to when I needed encouragement and direction, while at the same time serving as a tool for others who were looking for a way to lose weight and wanted to see how I finally managed to do it after failing so many times. My blog has not achieved those things...yet. My daily checklist has the word "blog" on it. It is almost never checked off. It also has the word "stretch" on it, and that doesn't get checked off either. These are two things that I aspire to. I will try to stretch every night beginning in Phase 4, which is about two weeks away. The daily blogging, however, is not going to happen. Sitting down and writing takes too much time, and to be a fiction writer and a daily blogger while being...

Checking in, nine days later.

November 20, 2013

I haven't posted on this blog in nine days, and I haven't decided yet if that is a good thing. NaNoWriMo has become a huge part of my life, and I'm actually enjoying the abuse that completing this novel has inflicted on me. The commitment and challenge were much needed. My blogging has suffered, unfortunately, as has my fitness level, and I'm nervous about my yearly physical exam tomorrow. Wrapping up a novel during October and writing a new one during November has not left a lot of time or motivation to follow any type of regular fitness schedule and I feel like crap. I'm sure my physical will reflect that! I have started a post about one of my favorite teachers which I plan to finish and publish tomorrow. I also challenged one of my writing buddies to a race to the 50,000 word mark. The loser has to write a blog post about the sheer awesomeness of the winner. I'm looking forward to writing it. My main character is tormenting me less these da...

A losing bet I was happy to win.

January 07, 2014

During my NaNoWriMo experience I would enter my word count at the end of each day. This practice kept me accountable to my goal of hitting 50,000 words on time. After recording my daily tally, I would check on my six writing buddies to see how they were holding up. About ten days into the challenge I noticed that one of my writing buddies had been keeping pace with me, staying ahead only by about a hundred or so words. I observed her growing word count through the middle of the month and it became clear that we had been on the exact same pace since day one. My suspicion was that my buddy had engaged in a de facto competition between the two of us to see who could get to 50,000 first. Now that I knew about it, though, I decided to make it official. @ButterflyQuills We're on the same pace so far... First one to 50K wins! #NaNoWriMo — Scott Ralph (@RalphSensei) November 20, 2013 I received a response almost immediately: @RalphSensei Deal! So what do I win? H...