Wed. Feb. 7, 2024: Stretching Mentally and Physically
image courtesy of pexels from pixabay.comWednesday, February 7, 2024
Day Before Dark Moon
Clear and cold
I hope you’re having a lovely week! The day before the dark moon is usually my lowest energy day of the month, but I need to have a productive day, so too bad for me.
Over on Ink-Dipped Advice, I talk about when tools cost time instead of saving it. You can read the piece here.
We have two serial episodes going live today. The first is from ANGEL HUNT:
Episode 109: Ritual Preparations
Lianna and Gaston convince the boys to honor the demon and send him away in peace, since they are unable to take care of him.
The second is from DEADLY DRAMATICS:
Episode 59: Nina Uses the Key
Nina won’t stop until she knows the truth.
I had trouble settling down and getting to work yesterday. My brain just didn’t want to settle in to the writing. I was very annoyed with myself. But I finally dug in and wrote two episodes of THE LIGHTHOUSE LADY. It took longer than it should have.
I dealt with some email and admin stuff, and had an initial conversation with the cohort leader for the Capacity Building program, which was good. Some of my Nightwood colleagues had good news to share, too: one is having her play read at a festival in Toronto, the other is headed to Edinburgh Fringe this year! Yay!
One of the wonderful and scary things about the capacity building grant is that it is the next step, building on last year’s work and opportunities, and it is very much up to me to step up and follow through on things.
In the afternoon, I turned around a short coverage, and then spent an hour reading for the second contest. I finished one category completely and started the second (I have five categories).
I’m worrying that I’m taking too much time with the serials, and not spending enough time on other writing. I believe in the stories themselves, but I have my doubts that Kindle Vella is the right outlet, with the way they’ve changed the payment structure. At the same time, the changes are sweeping out a lot of the unreliable serial authors – the ones who can’t keep up, or just stop posting, and the like. So maybe some of it is just hanging in there. The best thing to do is keep on keeping on, for the moment, but make sure I build in room to work on other projects, and then look at the monthly stats over the next few months and adjust.
Gentle yoga was great; yoga for fitness was challenging, which I guess is a good thing. One of our regulars did the whole fitness session masked, because members of her family are ill with strep and the flu, and she didn’t want to put us at risk. So when people whine that they “can’t” work out masked, they’re full of it. As usual, she outworked all of us!
By the end of the fitness class, I am very aware of being the oldest in class, especially since the people who rotate through and try it (apart from the core group that keeps showing up) is getting younger and younger. It’s not necessarily a bad thing; I just notice it.
Came home, made dinner, was tired and sore on the couch.
Dreamed I was at a writer’s conference, but they demanded we fix the elevators. I said no, they needed to hire professionals. Dreaming about elevators is supposedly about improvements in one’s life. Bringing in professionals might have something to do with the coaching we get as part of the capacity building program? Who knows?
I’m a little sore this morning, but it’s not too bad. On today’s agenda: more LIGHTHOUSE LADY, maybe some other writing, some errands, script coverage, contest reading, and, hopefully, tarot circle. I miss it and want to get back to it. I have to do some admin, too, and get some paperwork out the door. I’d like to work on the proposals. There are two I’d like to send out early next week.
Having lots of issues with the computer. I’m going to need to send it in soon for repair.
The Chewy order is supposed to arrive today, and the seeds on Saturday. I might pick up some more potting soil today when I am out and about.
Have a good one!
