Thurs. Aug. 24, 2023: Intense Writing Day
image courtesy of Anja via pixabay.comThursday, August 24, 2023
Waxing Moon
Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron, Mercury Retrograde
Cloudy and cool
The latest post on the garden is up over on Gratitude and Growth.
Today is Griddle’s surgery. If you can throw a couple of extra bucks into the pot, that would be great. Because it’s always more than the estimate. Thank you.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 114: Another Morning After
Shelley and her new lover part ways, and Shelley heads back into work, facing a dangerous new development.
Yesterday was an unexpectedly intense writing day. I expected to just plod along.
I got an episode of Legerdemain drafted. I dropped off a dozen books at the library – and picked up a dozen books. I did a quick grocery shop to pick up fresh fish for dinner, and was pleased to see about 60% masking again, including staff. That makes me feel better, going into the fall. I mean, I’ve kept masking anyway, but still. Numbers are going up again, and we have to be careful.
Swung by the liquor store.
Home, dealt with the mail I hadn’t picked up the day before, put in the Chewy order for cat food. They no longer carry the size of bag I ordered, so I had to do MATH and figure out which other size to get. I’m trying a 16-pound bag. That SHOUND last around 6 weeks or so. And, of course, I ordered more treats, because Charlotte and Willa love their bedtime snacks. (Tessa won’t touch them).
Turned around a small client project. Another one showed up and when I went to confirm, it vanished, so who knows what’s going on there.
Read through the pages of BRIDGE. It has decent bones (and will get a new title; it can’t keep the painting’s title). I made a few tweaks, but, overall, it’s going in the direction I want and need it to go.
Worked on FROZEN (another piece in desperate need of a new title). I tweaked what I had per the notes from last week’s Creatryx session, which I’ve been thinking about ever since. I rewrote the pages I’d written beyond the pages that were critiqued, again, applying the notes from that first session. And then I wrote on. I got about 8 pages done. I don’t need to share any material today, but I’m looking forward to having another “writing in community” session and maybe doing a few more pages today.
I took a quick break. On Bluesky, I read through some of the small lit magazines who are posting calls. Three of them in particular struck me; one is a very short piece (again, 250 words). I need to roll it around a bit, so that when I sit down to write, it’s mostly there. But an idea I’ve sort of been playing with bloomed by two of the other calls.
I sat down to write the opening. A couple of hours and a little over 3100 words later, I had a complete short story. It’s a weird little piece, but I kind of love it.
I did some tweaks, and, later today, I will do a rewrite. I need to add more tension and danger into one particular scene, and use it to underline one of the themes. But it’s in pretty good shape, and I should be able to get it out early next week, before deadline.
But afterwards, I was exhausted. That was a lot – writing about 5K over the three projects, not counting the client project. I cooked dinner, enjoyed a glass of wine on the front porch, tried to read, and had trouble concentrating.
So, the head of Wagner group died in a plane crash? Really? It’s a little too simple, especially since the guy’s second plane landed safely. The whole thing, since the supposed attempted coup has come across as staged. I think something else is going on, but whatever. Not my area of expertise.
On today’s agenda: no online meditation group, so I will write until I have to leave for yoga at the library. I need to draft another Legerdemain episode, and then get next week’s episodes polished, uploaded, and scheduled. I have to do the social media rounds for Legerdemain, too, at some point.
This afternoon is the Nightwood Creatryx session, and by then, I’m sure I’ll be exhausted.
In the best case scenario, I’d get some Llewellyn work done, along with uploading more Angel Hunt episodes, but on a realistic level, I doubt that will happen.
Have a good one, and we’ll catch up tomorrow!
