Thurs. Feb. 15, 2024: It’s Still Winter
image courtesy of Larisa Koshkina via pixabay.comThursday, February 15, 2024
Waxing Moon
Sunny and cold
You can read the latest on the garden over on Gratitude and Growth.
I can finally share some good news: My full-length play, FALL FOREVER, is going to be part of Glimmer Globe Theatre’s NEXT reading series at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY in April. I will post more information as I receive it.
This play was born in a workshop hosted by the Williamstown Theatre Festival in June of 2022. I found out about it through Word X Word, and it was hosted by one of the WXW poets and theatre educators. I came out of that workshop with the seeds for seven different plays.
FALL FOREVER was the one that pulled hardest, and I wrote the first draft last April during the Dramatist Guild’s END OF PLAY program. It was given a virtual reading as part of that program in early May. With what I learned from that, and from some notes by friends, it went through several more drafts, and I started submitting it for readings last autumn. I also used pages from it as part of my application to join Nightwood’s Creatryx unit last year.
And now it’s going to get another reading. What I learn from this, in April, will allow me to do another set (or sets) of revisions, and then, hopefully, it will be in shape for further development/production.
I’m looking forward to it. I’m still not satisfied with the ending, and I’m worried that the final moment is saccharine instead of satisfying. I may rewrite during rehearsals; in any case, seeing/hearing it will give me a lot of necessary information for the next steps.
I knew about this in late January, but they asked us not to go public with it until they put out their official announcement and the audition information. Since I loathe vague posts – whenever someone says, “I have good news and can’t share it yet” I just want to bitch slap them – I walked my talk and shut the hell up publicly until I could actually talk about it.
Today’s serial episode is from LEGERDEMAIN:
Episode 164: The Man in the Room
Another dead body. Another portal.
I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the laptop. When my grant funds come through, one of the first things I’m going to do is get a backup laptop and send this one back in for repair. Fingers crossed it holds out that long. I really RESENT having to shell out the cash for a backup computer, but they’re built to fail.
On top of that, Word updated and has a new default font which I HATE. The directions to set something else as default don’t work. So I guess I’ll just do it manually, every time I have a new document. Blech.
Wrote two episodes of THE VICIOUS CRITIC, which flowed well. Wrote an episode of Legerdemain, which flowed okay. Worked on a workshop proposal, which is going to take more work than I expected, but I’ll keep plugging away at it in bits until it’s done.
Adjusted the writing/business plan for the serials. It’s a little different for each serial, because the serials are different, but because Amazon basically picks a random number for the serial pot every month and then makes up new parameters to divide it up amongst the authors, it’s getting less and less viable. So I adjust.
Had more paperwork for the CSA, but I think this is the last of it. First pickup is June 4th. I’ll detail my CSA adventures over on Gratitude and Growth rather than here.
Did some reading for the Scholastic contest. I have some questions that I will gather together for the administrator and send off today.
I had a few exchanges with the owner of the liquor store that closed, suggesting resources that could help him re-open in a new location. Don’t know if he’ll actually follow through, but at least I shared the information.
Tarot circle was great. I had turned up in another member’s dream last night, and portions of our dream had intersected, which is kind of weird, but not surprising, considering the group. We had a great time. On the way there, I’d stopped at Wild Oats for coffee and one of my favorite wines.
A couple of small coverages came in for today. I’m under what I’d hoped for this pay period, which is frustrating.
I’m putting together an LOI for a potential new client. The pay’s a little under what I’d like, but it offers the flexibility I need at the moment, so I figured it’s worth a pitch.
On today’s agenda: meditation, two more episodes of THE VICIOUS CRITIC, getting two episodes of LEGERDEMAIN up. I’ll see how much time I have in the writing portion of my day after that, and then decide on which project to focus the attention. In the afternoon, I have some coverages and Scholastic reading to do. Then, again, I’ll see where I am, timewise, and what needs doing. I hope to finish a book for review, so I can get those two reviews out tomorrow and get in another assignment, so that I can invoice next week.
Hope you have a great day!
