Wed. Oct. 18, 2023: Organzing the Rest of the Week
image courtesy of Karolina Grabowska via pixabay.comWednesday, October 18, 2023
Waxing Moon
Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Foggy and cool
Today’s Process Muse talks about how the poem “I Will Be Different” evolved over various drafts. You can read it here.
Today’s Ink-Dipped Advice talks about “Professional Development.” You can read it here.
Today, two serial episodes go live. The first is from ANGEL HUNT:
Episode 77: Visiting Gaston in Park Slope
Lianna visits the ceremonial magician in his elegant Brooklyn apartment.
The second is from DEADLY DRAMATICS;
Episode 27: Myles Suggests Nina Switch Coasts
Roger’s best friend tries to convince her to move to LA
Got a rejection for a short story, which I expected, because I wasn’t sure it was a good match for the piece. I don’t think submissions are open on the markets that are right at the moment, so it will sit and wait until they do.
Read through a call for writers for a collaborative playwrighting project, where they choose a group of writers, assign scenes, then integrate them into a final piece. It’s paid – not much, but something. However, they want 2-5 pages written to a prompt as part of the interview process, rather than looking at previously written samples. Warning bells went off right away. First of all, that’s unpaid labor as part of the interview process, so nope. Second, what’s to prevent them from keeping the scenes, telling the writers none of them are hired, and then tweaking them and using them themselves, the way so many corporations do? If they can’t read a sample of previous work and tell whether someone is right for the project, that’s about their lack of reading comprehension (or lack of ethics), not about the person’s work. So that’s a pass.
Finally found a place where we can get our COVID boosters. At Walmart, of all places. But it’s tomorrow at 10 AM, which means I cancelled out of yoga tomorrow night. I’ll skip going to tarot circle this afternoon, too, since a few people there recently had COVID, and I can’t afford the risk. Since this week was blocked off for jury duty anyway, might as well get the vaccines in.
Maybe, MAYBE I’ll be back on my feet for the Artist Meetup and then the Wild Oats Board Meeting next Tuesday. There’s not a lot of script work in this week, so it makes sense to be down for the count with vaccine reactions now. I’m already overbooked next week (the week leading up to Samhain/Halloween is always my busiest of the year), and if I have to move things because of the vaccine, it will be a problem.
I am, of course, nervous as all get out about the vaccine, and feeling so awful AGAIN for days and days, but it beats the alternative.
Some authors with whom I interact on social media have started using Ream for their work. It looks interesting, but I’m not sure I have the following to make it worth setting up yet another account and trying yet another project. It seems to be mostly for romance authors right now, although the site says it supports all genres.
Did a library and pharmacy run. Turned around some script scoring sheets. Got a message that the materials I sent to a group on Friday weren’t delivered (Spectrum was being wonky), so I tried sending them again. This time, it seems, they went through.
Drafted an episode of Legerdemain. I will upload/schedule next week’s and the following week’s episodes today instead of the usual Thursday, so I’m not trying to do it right after the vaccine. Polished, uploaded, scheduled four more episodes of ANGEL HUNT, getting me into February of next year. Just 32 more episodes to upload/schedule, and it will be up (8 days’ worth of uploads, doing 4/day). Did all the paperwork around the episodes, and wrote the loglines. The next batch of episodes has some tricky rewrites in it, so I may not get them done as quickly, especially with script coverage work coming in.
Did the social media rounds for the Legerdemain episode. Did a round or promotions for 30 Tips for 30 Days, because I haven’t pushed that anywhere this year. At the end of the moon cycle last week, I decided to stop going on Pebble. Not enough interaction with artists, and it didn’t drive traffic back to any of my sites. Can’t spend the time there.
I considered starting the CAST IRON MURDER revisions, but I’m worried that I won’t be able to work on them post-vaccine, and I’ll lose the rhythm, so I’ll wait until I’ve recovered from the shot to get going. Three to five chapters is a solid revision pace for me. If I can stick with three chapters a day for the course of the revisions, it will take a few weeks (barring major rewrites, which already happened in a previous draft), and I hope it will chug along steadily. I don’t want the revision flow interrupted once I start.
Finished and polished today’s Ink-Dipped Advice piece, and got that uploaded and scheduled.
Read the book for review. Will write up the review today, get it out the door, and maybe get my next one (I can read it while recovering from the vaccine, once I feel up to it). I also have two script coverages I’d like to turn around today, although they’re not due until the weekend.
Out the door early this morning to do laundry. Only one there, which means I could edit Legerdemain episodes, and they are ready to go. Filled out a jury duty survey, and mentioned the parking situation.
I need to do another library run, pick up a few things at the grocery store. A friend is doing a live art piece on Eagle Street this noon, and I want to swing by and support her.
Then I’ll work however long I can this afternoon and get as much done as possible to clear the week, in case the booster takes me down hard, the way all five previous shots did.
One day at a time, right? Have a good one!
