Thurs. June 15, 2023: A Good Writing Day
image courtesy of Jill Wellington via pixabay.comThursday, June 15, 2023
Waning Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Cloudy and chilly
The latest on the garden is over on Gratitude and Growth.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 94: From Doom to Dilly Dally
Cheating lovers, a sense of threat, and Portha Prtichard’s excellent ale.
Yesterday was a good writing day. Finally.
I drafted Episode 100 of Legerdemain, which kind of feels like a big deal. Even though that episode is going to go live fairly soon. Episode 104 will mark the one year anniversary of the serial (52 weeks at 2 episodes per week), and that’s coming up pretty soon, too.
Once the Legerdemain episode was written, I switched over to ANGEL HUNT. I wrote the last episode I needed to fix the plot hole. Then I started adapting chapters into episodes again. Some of them needed more work than others, to adjust to the new material. But, all in all, I got 13 episodes prepped. I have about two more chapters to adapt into episodes, and then it’s writing the episodes that make up the climactic sequence and the resolution.
Staying deep in the work is keeping the sense memory stress somewhat at bay, although I still wake up in the middle of the night with it. Soon, it will be the 3rd anniversary of the move, and that stretch between moving day and 4th of July is always fraught. But I’m trying to build something else, day-to-day, to put that sense memory stress in the rearview mirror for good.
I picked up my mom’s prescriptions and a couple of bottles of wine.
In the afternoon, I turned around a client project (that was really great to work on). I started the big client project, and ended up doing most of it. I have to finish writing it up today, and can easily get it in by deadline (unless the computer dies). That means I can take tomorrow off from client work. I might take the holiday Monday off, too, but we’ll see.
This morning, as I wrote in my personal journal, I got an idea for a short play. I sat down and drafted it (it’s only a ten minute play running 8 pages). I think I will aim this to the submission call that I originally wanted for “Summon Thee.” That way, if/when I take my friend Diane’s advice and write “Summon Thee” as long as it wants to go without worrying about truncating it for the call, I won’t have sabotaged myself.
“The Dressing Room” has a weird humor to it and a twist at the end. I will do a couple more passes on it and let it sit a few days. Maybe ask a friend to read it. Then do another set of tweaks on it and get it out.
If “Summon Thee’ winds up fitting the call, and a submittable draft is done within the submission window, then it will go off, too. If not, I will find another market for it.
But it feels good to start the day with a whole new draft of a play done.
I didn’t do the social media rounds to promote The Process Muse and Angel Hunt yesterday, so I will have to make up for it today.
Oh, and a big thanks to Veronica Varlow for giving me a pep talk the other day, when I was feeling low. Much appreciated.
Meditation this morning (I hope), then back to Legerdemain and ANGEL HUNT, writing up the big client project, and whatever else I can get done.
Have a good one!
