Thurs. Aug. 31, 2023: Just Chugging Along
image courtesy of David Mark via pixabay.comThursday, August 31, 2023
Waning Moon
Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron, Mercury, Uranus Retrograde
Sunny and pleasant
You can find the latest on the garden over on Gratitude and Growth.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 116: Dampening the Heat
The assassin’s own changed magic provokes an intriguing new theory.
I struggled yesterday. I felt heavy and sad and unsettled.
But I pushed through, although I didn’t have much luck in writing. Very few words on the page, which frustrated me and threw off my rhythm for the day.
But I caught up on some email. I did a library run, dropping off and picking up books.
A medium-sized client project and four small client projects came through. I turned all of them around. It won’t be much money, but at least there will be something coming in this pay period.
I looked at a few other places, to which I might send my resume. I want to reconfigure my freelance resume. That’s on the list for the holiday weekend, and I’ll start sending the newly reconfigured resume and letter out next week, along with an updated cover letter. I want different things now, from my freelance life, and it’s time to go after them.
I helped smooth out some event details; I will have to go to the venue today in person for the rest. I drafted up a press release. I need a pithy headline, but I ran out of pith.
Did some thinking about the three proposals I still have to write. Each organization to which I’m pitching is very different, and I need to crystallize what unique skills and perspective I bring that align with their various missions.
The Blue Moon ritual I did last night was simple, but felt right.
I really wanted to take the upcoming holiday weekend off, but I don’t see that happening. At the very least, I have to dig down and complete the 25 short articles for Llewellyn, and get a bit ahead on Legerdemain, The Process Muse, and Ink-Dipped Advice.
I was out the door early to the laundromat, and got the laundry done. It still has to be folded and put away, but that’s on the list for this morning. I managed to work on a few chapters of the multi-colored draft of CAST IRON MURDER while I was there.
Today I need to work on the press release and send it off for tweaks, so I can make changes and get it out next week, go to the event venue to check on a few things, draft at least one episode of Legerdemain, and get next week’s episodes revised, edited, uploaded, and scheduled. The afternoon will be taken up with Nightwood’s Creatryx, where I will do some more work on FROZEN AT THE PALACE THEATRE and share the next four pages of the piece. I have to prep the pages. They’re written, but I need to do a good PDF just of those pages to share.
In the best of all possible worlds, I’d get some of the short articles done this morning, and then, later this evening, get four more ANGEL HUNT episodes up, but I seriously doubt it will happen. I also need to start reading the next book for review.
I’ve been invited to an open house/book signing in Williamstown tonight. I’d like to go, because I’d like to meet that circle of people, but I have to see how the day shakes out.
Have a good one! At least we have some sunshine today.
