Thurs. Feb. 8, 2024: Bit of a Roller Coaster Day
image courtesy of pnat via pixbay,comThursday, February 8, 2024
Dark Moon
Clear and cold
The latest on the garden is over on Gratitude and Growth.
Today’s serial episode is from LEGERDEMAIN:
Episode 162: Interviewing the Questing Quintet
Five singers met at the Adventure-Sum Inn and created the quintet. So who is the mysterious sixth man in a matching jacket?
This episode was so much fun to write, with this singing group that happened to find each other staying at the Adventure-Sum Inn, that they will get their own novella. I’ve been working on the outline. I haven’t figured out how to pull off what I want to do structurally with it, and am playing with possibilities.
Yesterday morning, I had a bunch of admin that had to get out the door early. Then, instead of writing, I checked a list of submission calls, and found two that I wanted to enter. I had to check a few details on the full-length, and when I re-read it and realized it fit, I sent it off. Sent off another one-act, too.
Looking at my roster of stage plays, I need to add in some full-lengths, and maybe a couple more ten-minute plays, but also a couple of 40-minute plays. I have two full-lengths begun: THE WOMEN ON THE BRIDGE and FROZEN AT THE PALACE THEATRE. I have a feeling finishing WOMEN will be the project I do for this year’s END OF PLAY program. Some of the other seeds of plays that were planted in the Williamstown playwrighting workshop a couple of years ago have the possibility of growing into decent one acts. Plus, I have “Inspired By” which needs a rewrite, and “After Arden” which could also use a rewrite. The former will probably run around 20-40 minutes. The latter, I don’t want to go beyond 10.
I missed the submission deadline for the one- and two-minute plays, but that doesn’t mean I can’t write them and keep them in my back pocket and/or adapt them for radio.
Speaking of radio. I need to get some radio plays into the mix again, and I need to do a tracking sheet for the radio plays the way I do for the stage plays: page count/running time, character breakdown, etc. I started working on that spreadsheet, but it’s very time intensive.
Signed up for another A4A workshop in late March, which I’m looking forward to attending via ZOOM.
By then, it was time to head out for errands: post office, pick up at a store of a bunch of items, pharmacy, library. Of course, as soon as I got home the pharmacy decided they had a second prescription ready for pickup.
Turned around a script coverage. Read for the contest.
Finally got a chance to go back to tarot circle. It was great. I was so happy to be there. We have such in-depth conversations. Turns out some of the store regulars are also in the artist cohort, which will be fun.
Home to find out, once again, someone appropriated my parking space. This Wild West of parking has to stop. My parking space is part of my lease agreement. It wasn’t an issue until last year, when Dipsy Doodle downstairs started disrespecting other people’s slots. I’ve been nice and diplomatic for a year, and it did no good. No more nice. I managed to get my slot back this morning, but I shouldn’t have to be back in the slot by 4 PM every day, nor should I have to worry every time I go out and run an errand.
I’d put dinner in the crockpot earlier in the day – chicken penne with sun dried tomatoes and spinach. Pretty good.
The women in the CIA book I’ve been reading reached the 9/11 stage, which is not something I should have read before trying to sleep.
On today’s agenda: meditation (which I need – badly). Writing LIGHTHOUSE LADY. Revising, editing, polishing, uploading, and scheduling LEGERDEMAIN. A small coverage came in (not enough work has come in this week). Contest reading. I’m invited to a kirtan chant event tonight; I’m trying to decide if the parking lot stress is worth it.
I am so ready for a new moon tomorrow!
