Writing is a physical act

A good morning of writing, five pages of the new entry into the story, and I'm mentally and physically exhausted. Writing takes a physical toll as well as mental. And the older I get, the greater the exhaustion. But I am very pleased with how it's going. It now has the feel of a novella, short and sweet, rather like my Army novella, a favorite work.

A month ago I was in Starbucks. A young man introduced himself as a former student, now active in local theater, I didn't remember him, but he said his dad was a great fan of my Army novel because he'd served in the same area of Germany some years after I did and not much had changed. Nice to learn.