Week in review

 The busy-ness of life came to a screeching halt as piles of snow dumped on our region.  The weather is pretty mild, but we usually get about a week of snow.  Our area doesn't really deal with it.  Figures it will be gone in a week so.... * shrug *

But that meant plenty of time to settle in with my lapdesk and knock out a couple projects.  Why a lapdesk?  Well, I managed to break my foot and am doing my best Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window impersonation.  In other news, take care of your bodies and take care of those bones, kids.  Because when they break, it is a real bummer.

So, the New Year's resolutions was to see what life was like without sugar or flour (it's pretty good, I gotta say), unplug from social media (still rough, but working on it.  I highly recommend the Freedom app if you need a hard intervention), unplug from the news cycle (my favorite form of procrastination), and rediscover the joys of writing.

Part of this was stepping back from the pressures of playwriting.  If you could see the number of rejection letters in my inbox right now... And I know that part of it has to do with my writing being very physical and with large casts.  They just aren't feasible in the world as it currently is. But the rejection letters still bite.  So, am putting all that on the backburner.

And, instead, I'm focusing on the page.  This week, I wrote a short story of an upcoming fairytale anthology.  And I gave myself the freedom to dive into the more poetic side of the written word.  There is this... high?... that comes digging through a thesaurus and finding a word that is just so much more than the word your brain would normally have chosen.  Perhaps the closest analogy is putting together a puzzle and finding the bits that fits.

I'm also playing around a bit with suspense writing.  It's still in its infancy but, again, it is fun to create something for the sheer fun of trying something new.

But in the midst of this, I got an idea for a new Maggie short story, so I'll be spending the week getting that onto the page.

Snowed in with nothing to do but write, I also spent some time vegging out, and my weekly show recommendations are:  The Great Interior Design Challenge (think The Great British Bake Off, but with furniture.  I loved how sweet it was and how they really wanted people to do well) and Miss Scarlet and the Duke (Victorian detective show with some really great acting turns).

Onward into the new week!