24 days without cigarettes, but the regular dopamine flow has continued to elude me. I presume that the chemical receptors in my brain still cower from the torturous nicotine that I doused them with over the years. (I'm so sorry, dear mind!) So I hit the exercise bike for twenty minutes. And that did the trick! I wrote 500 words this afternoon. Crisp descriptive sentences at my usual colorful standards. God, I hate forced exercise, but if it gets me writing...

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