Thurs. June 8, 2023: Smog and Rage Are Not a Healthy Mix
image courtesy of David Mark via pixabay.comThursday, June 8, 2023
Waning Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Hazy and cool
The photo above is from Los Angeles in a previous year, but photos coming out of NYC yesterday were similar.
Hop over to Gratitude and Growth to read the latest on the garden.
Today’s episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 92: Snakey’s
The best intel is found in the dive-iest bars.
Rage and smog are not a good mix, so yesterday was not the productive day for which I hoped and needed. It’s nowhere near as bad here as in upstate New York and down in NYC, but it’s bad enough to cause coughing, throat irritation, and eye issues. We have the air purifier on, and I’m staying in as much as possible.
So much for enjoying the great outdoors this summer!
I got the next two weeks’ worth of Process Muse posts polished, uploaded, and scheduled. I did some research into a few companies to which I might pitch LOIs. I worked on a new Legerdemain episode, although I did not finish it. I did the social media rounds to promote The Process Muse and Angel Hunt. I started reading the next book for review (which is nearly 500 pages and, just, sigh).
The Chewy order showed up. Yay! But if I hadn’t contacted Chewy to push Fed Ex, it wouldn’t have.
I wrote about 20 script pages on the idea with which I’ve been playing, and it will go into statis, at least for the moment. The drama and the character relationships are there, but the genre elements need to be layered in to ratchet up the tension. It’s reading too flat for the intended genre. And that’s not something where I can place my time right now. I’d rather put that kind of time and detail work into the Heist Romance script, and into finishing this draft of FALL FOREVER. And finishing “Summon Thee” which needs to have a finished first draft sooner than later, so I can get it to a submittable draft by the end of the month.
But working on those pages, even though they have to be put aside, got me out of the lack of focus rut, so at least there’s that.
I have meditation today, and then I have to venture out (masked outdoors as well as indoors, thanks to the smog) and do a library run. I have quite a stack of books piled up waiting for me. Next week’s Legerdemain episodes have to get uploaded, which also means episode graphics, loglines, videos, etc. I need to draft some more on Legerdemain and Angel Hunt, and maybe work on “Summon Thee.” I have a feeling I won’t get much beyond that done, along with reading the book for review, because I’m tired and burned out. The smog is giving me a migraine, on top of it, which makes it harder to concentrate.
I’ll work on my LOIs over the next few days, but it’s silly to send anything out on a Friday or a Monday, so I’ll aim those for next Tuesday. I’ll also work with some of the Vella promotion groups to swap serial reads.
I’m reading the various responses to the DGA contract with interest. Some are over the moon about it, but I’m seeing a lot of posts from directors who are voting against ratification. Would be nice if more of them would start showing up on the picket lines.
Have a good one, my friends. May your breathing ease.
This is like the 70’s, pre-EPA pollution regulations, only worse and more like dystopian science fiction. I don’t even like to read dystopia; I sure as hell don’t want to live it.
