Tues. Jan. 23, 2024: Yet Another Snowstorm Coming In
image courtesy of Janusz Walczak via pixabay.comTuesday, February 23, 2024
Waxing Moon
Uranus Retrograde
Another incoming snowstorm
I completely forgot to post an intent yesterday. I guess my intent is keeping on keeping on?
Hope you had a great weekend.
If you missed my post over on the GDR site about “Don’t Rush the Resolutions” you can read it now.
Today is the re-release day of my science fiction/western/horror novelette “Severance.” You can read a blurb about it on my Delectable Digital Delights page and watch the video. You’ll have to scroll down for it, it’s down near the bottom.
Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain:
Episode 157: Questioning the Corpse
Corpse Talker Ren Foster gets some answers, which lead to more questions.
Friday was busy. The snow was late starting, which meant my headache was pretty bad.
But I wrote two episodes of THE VICIOUS CRITIC quickly. I thought the material would only be one, but it was too long for one of my episodes, so I found a good place to split it. I was tempted to keep going because it was flowing so well, but I knew I had a lot that HAD to be finished on Friday, so I made myself stop, update the style sheet and series bible, and put everything away. It will be a month before I get to work on it again, and I already miss it.
I wrote a LIGHTHOUSE LADY episode and ended at a good point to pick up again yesterday.
I did the week’s episode graphics for LEGERDEMAIN, and then this week’s episode videos for all the serials. Got them uploaded and scheduled on TikTok.
In the afternoon and evening, I turned around four stage play coverages.
Lilith St. Crow shared a link for a WP plug-in to protect AI scraping. I added it to all the websites. I can’t add plug-ins to these stand-alone blogs, which is annoying. But I did put it up on all the websites. It’s called Simple NoAI. She also uses the WordFence plug-in, which she likes a lot.
It was supposed to snow all day on Friday, but we just had a few flurries. It got very cold overnight, though, and was only 3 degrees F when I woke up on Saturday.
Weird dreams about being somewhere with two suitcases full of clothes and trying to figure out what to wear, and then going to have a meal in a bar that cost $57. I woke up thinking I’d spent money, then realized I spent it in the dream, and it wasn’t actually coming out of my bank account. But that’s a pretty specific amount, isn’t it?
Saturday morning, I finished drafting an episode of LEGERDEMAIN and drafted two more. Then I revised, edited, polished, uploaded, and scheduled the final two of the four episodes I wanted to upload for the week, which gets me through mid-February.
My next task was to do the videos for the “Severance” re-release, in TikTok, wide, and Instagram formats. If you’d like to watch the video on the Delectable Digital Delights page, as mentioned above, you can do so here. You have to scroll down, though.
After that, I did three coverages and two score sheets. And that was my day. I cooked dinner and read for pleasure.
I slept pretty well Saturday into Sunday for once. Enjoyed my morning coffee and journal writing, changed the beds (a day late, but it still got done) and did some household chores.
I drafted an episode of Legerdemain, and part of another one.
I headed out to yoga in the cold, and we had an intense and interesting discussion on the philosophy of the Yamas, the first of the 8 Limbs of Yoga.
Came home, and slid into the time blocked off for poetry. I didn’t write any poetry this week, but I read some of Mary Oliver’s POETRY HANDBOOK and some of BALLADZ by Sharon Olds.
When I was done with that, I started reading the joint memoir by the theatre performers and managers Marie and Squire Bancroft, who were prominent from the mid-1800’s well into the early 1900’s. I’ve had the book for a couple of years now. I planned to write a play based around Marie when the 365 Women Playwrights a Year project shut down. But I never got around to reading the book before. Definitely the right choice to read before diving into REP this week, even though REP is set in a science fiction/comedy setting.
Slept pretty well. Charlotte and Tessa came on the bed right away. as soon as the evening meditation was done. They decided it was more important to them to both be on the bed together than to fuss at each other, so all three of us got a good night’s sleep. Well, Tessa smacked me every time I rolled over, but for the most part, it was good sleep.
Up at a reasonable hour on Monday. Went through a bunch of email that piled up over the weekend. Got up the post on the GDR site.
Turned my attention to REP, which is the primary focus this week. I started by reading the draft of the five episodes already written, with an eye to rearranging the first four episodes into three.
I did so, and rewrote the next episodes (which was episode 5, now episode 4), and wrote a new episode 5. That was pretty tiring, and took a lot of worldbuilding, and a different kind of worldbuilding than I use in LEGERDEMAIN, because the world of REP is very different than the world of LEGERDEMAIN. This draft is getting it down on paper. When I go into more serious revisions, I have to focus on building the comic elements to be stronger, and to build properly, so they can land and pay off.
I started a new episode of LIGHTHOUSE LADY, but the deadline for a rush coverage loomed, and I couldn’t concentrate on LL with the rush job in my queue.
I got the rush job done, I got a bunch more scripts in my queue, and I completed a stack of scoring sheets. I created an ad for the “Severance” re-release, that I can alternate with the video. In early February, I’ll probably do a small ad buy on FB for both “Severance” and LEGERDEMAIN.
I should have gone back to LIGHTHOUSE LADY or LEGERDEMAIN, but I was too cooked. I’ll have to make up for that today.
I heard about a Word X Word event in February I would really like to do, but it’s at night in a place I don’t know, and I don’t have the night vision to risk it. Plus, checking the forecast, we’re supposed to have a pretty good-sized snowstorm. So I’m going to pass.
I started reading a perfectly pleasant book for pleasure. It’s not great, but it’s decent brain candy.
I slept for eight hours without interruption last night, which is rare. I woke up feeling like I’d slept too much, but that’s okay. I went to sleep with Tessa on the bed; woke up with Tessa and Charlotte on the bed.
I heard some sad news from a close friend. One of her beloved cats is fading from cancer, in spite of treatment. It’s so heartbreaking.
On today’s agenda: REP (probably just one episode), finish the episode of LEGERDEMAIN I started on Sunday. Maybe finish the episode of LIGHTHOUSE LADY I started on Sunday (doubtful). Promote today’s episode of LEGERDEMAIN. Promote the re-release of “Severance.” Schedule the car inspection, and get the taillight fixed. Five or six small coverages to turn around. Two hours of yoga, hoping that the storm doesn’t trap me at the studio (it’s supposed to start while I’m in class).
It looks and feels like the storm will start earlier than expected; I’m hoping it’ll blow through and be done by the time I have to leave for yoga.
That’s all the news. Tessa is patrolling, Charlotte is on her perch in the window in my office (originally meant to be a worktable, but she claimed it), and Willa is back in the fleece sheets after eating a big breakfast.
Have a great day!
