Wed. March 6, 2024: Trying To Keep All the Balls in the Air
image courtesy of Nona via pixabay.comWednesday, March 6, 2024
Waning Moon
Rainy and raw
There are two serial episodes going live today. The first is from ANGEL HUNT:
Episode 117: Akseli Varden in the Circle
Akseli teases Lianna and Gaston with partial answers.
The other is from DEADLY DRAMATICS:
Episode 67: Dmitra’s Opening Night
Dmitra’s performance is unlike anything Nina’s ever seen before. Is that a good thing?
Yesterday was exhausting. After the laundry, I came back to do the monitoring. My mom wasn’t feeling great, but she felt better as the morning continued. She’s very tired, which is understandable.
Breakfast, litter boxes, folding and putting away laundry, grocery shopping. I managed to get the grocery shopping done before the storm got too bad; it was just spitting when I was out and about. Much worse by the time I was home, unpacking it all.
Put everything away. Found out most of the social networks on the internet went down. Whose cat was it who broke the internet? I’m looking at you, Calamity Joon!
Rather amusing.
The artist cohort is set to use What’sApp, which is not something I am fond of; I’d been griping to a witchy friend. As soon as they heard that was one of the sites down, they said, “I know you’re not a What’sApp fan, but did you have to crash the whole internet?” It was pretty funny, all around.
I guess you had to be there. 
Tried to reschedule 10 DEADLY DRAMATICS episodes so that they are releasing one per day, starting on St. Patrick’s Day. Of course, Amazon, who approved the initial episodes when they were first scheduled, is dragging their feet, and I had to get in touch this morning. The only change to the episodes is the release date (and the new assurance that I do not use AI when I write). The episodes already passed review. I want to make sure these episodes move before I move all the rest, so that the release schedule is tighter.
Reading posts from authors in various Vella groups. Kind of sad how mean so many authors are to each other. This work holds different positions in each of our careers. We need to make the best decisions FOR OUR OWN CAREERS as we can. It’s going to be different for someone like me, where Vella can only be a portion of the career to someone who uses Vella for their entire income to someone who does it as a hobby for a little extra cash. It’s no one else’s business as to our individual decisions, based on our vision and needs. Hey, for those who do it as a hobby, great. STFU on the snark to those who write as their career.
Got us fed for lunch (yay, grocery shopping). I turned around three short coverages, wrote and submitted a book review, dealt with moving a book into a contest category into which it’s more suited.
Put in a Chewy order – we have another bag of food, but sometimes it’s out of stock, and it’s back in stock right now, so I got the Great Big Bag – which is the same price as it was last time, but a pound less food within in. Sigh. I already stopped ordering cat litter through them because I get a better deal at Big Y for the same quality litter (1/3 of the price).
By then, I was wiped. Spent an hour or so as cat furniture for Charlotte, trying to work out the best way to structure the next Legerdemain episodes to end the arc and the serial.
Managed to get to yoga, but I only stayed for gentle yoga, and I barely made it through that. I’m glad I went, I needed it, but it was physically and mentally a struggle. Considering it was gentle yoga, that was not a good thing.
Home, dinner, after dinner chores. Went to bed ridiculously early.
Which meant I was wide awake at 3 AM. Got the email off to Vella to sort out the episode rescheduling issues.
Going to work on the March newsletter now, then do the early morning monitoring and get my mom ready for her morning doctor’s appointment. This afternoon, I have a Creative Capital workshop around their grant. I hope to get in a medium script coverage before I head off to tarot circle – although, if the storm comes in early and is as bad as predicted, I might have to skip tarot. But I would like to be with them.
I’m hoping to get some writing in there, at the very least on an episode by episodes outline for the upcoming Legerdemain episodes. And maybe work on the short story, but that might get pushed off until tomorrow.
Fingers crossed the doctor’s appointment goes well. My mom seems a little better this morning, at least so far. Let’s hope she’s on the road to recovery.
