Wed. June 14, 2023: Practicality and Emotion
image courtesy of Paul Brennan via pixabay.comWednesday, June 14, 2023
Waning Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Sunny and warm
We’re at midweek! Hope your week is going well.
Today is a day of solidarity throughout the world for the WGA Strike.
Today’s post on The Process Muse is about “What To Share, When, and Where” is up here.
Today’s serial episode is from Angel Hunt:
Episode 41: Growth Happens
Lianna faces her challenges with fresh resolve.
I set up the Nina Bell files yesterday, moving them off the old drive onto the hard drive, and now setting up files on the drive I’m keeping the serials and the scripts. I moved everything onto the hard drive and the first 12 episodes onto the new USB. As I revise and polish these episodes (and come up with episode titles), I will set up tracking sheets and the series bible.
While in novels, I update the series bible after each book is in final galleys, for the serials, I have to do it as I go, so I can stay consistent as I write.
Made some tentative plans to visit with a friend who’ll be working up in Dorset, VT later this summer. It’s been too long since we were able to spend time together, so we’re looking forward to it.
Realized I hadn’t put up the episode ads for this week’s episodes of Legerdemain and Angel Hunt on the sites where I can schedule to post, so I did that. I’ve gotten in the habit of creating the week’s batch of posts, but then putting them aside instead of scheduling what I can right away. Took another look at Buffer, and they don’t have a plan that gives me what I need. If they did, I’d pay for one, but there are too many restrictions on the various plans.
My mother’s insurance refuses to cover her medication, because the doctor prescribed that she take a pill and a half each day (there is no available dosage that is exactly what she needs), which means she need 45 pills per month, and insurance will only “allow” her 30. It’s blood pressure medication, FFS. It’s not like she gets addicted.
Health care does not exist in the United States. It’s about keeping you dependent on medication, and then killing you off when it’s more profitable not to have you on the meds anymore.
On top of that, her pension, which is small, now says they “have” to withhold taxes. Um, no. Fuck that shit.
Wrote an episode of Legerdemain. Wrote an episode of ANGEL HUNT. Worked on the first DEADLY DRAMATICS episodes. Did the social media rounds for Legerdemain. Turned around a medium sized client project. I’d hoped to finish another one before yoga, but there wasn’t time. I’ll do that today, and then a big project came in; if I can turn it around by tomorrow night, this pay period is okay. Not brilliant, but okay.
I came up with a great title for a piece (probably horror, or at least a ghost story), but I have no idea yet about the story or characters. Hate it when that happens. I like to start from character, go “what if?” and take it from there.
I started wondering if it would be able to craft a mystery as a poem (or a poem as a mystery). I mean, I’m sure it CAN be done; I’m just wondering if I can do it. I might play with some ideas between now and the residency and see. I want to bring in a bunch of material, and use the time with the other poets to learn how to hone it.
Yoga was good. The instructor gave me some exercises that should help my hip, so I started doing those today.
I ordered a pizza at Christo’s before I went into yoga (it’s right next door) and picked it up when I left. It was delicious. It’s interesting how each pizza place in town has a very different taste.
After dinner, I received the terrible news of Treat Williams’s death yesterday afternoon in a motorcycle accident. We worked together on the FOLLIES revival on Broadway. In addition to being a talented actor, he was kind, funny, and had a strong core of integrity. We’d kept in touch, sporadically, over the years. He was just down in the area, on Friday, doing a benefit in Great Barrington. I’m so, so sad.
Didn’t sleep well, got up early and out the door to the laundromat. I wasn’t the only one there, which always annoys me. I have an unfair expectation to have the place to myself.
I did, however, manage to revise four episodes of Legerdemain (including another pass at the fight sequence), and a couple of chapters of CAST IRON MURDER (the correct draft, this time).
Work on the serials and the play this morning. Client work this afternoon. At some point, I have to take a break and pick up my mother’s pills. I have to pay out of pocket for the month’s additional pills while they work things out with insurance.
It’s sunny and lovely today, so far. We’re supposed to get thunderstorms later on. I’d hoped for a nice day on Friday, but that’s supposed to be nasty, too. Deal with it as it comes, right?
Have a good one.
