Fri. March 29, 2024: Crying Over Spilled Coffee (on the Printer)
image courtesy of RDNE Stock Project via pexels.comFriday, March 29, 2024
Waning Moon
Rainy and raw
Don’t forget about the short mystery from my backlist which is set around Easter, “Plot Bunnies.” You can get more information about it on the Delectable Digital Delights page, including a fun video and buy links. Although I can put videos on my domained WP websites, I can’t do so on the blog.
I’m stacking a lot of episode information here at the top of the post.
Today’s episode of ANGEL HUNT:
Episode 124: The Trap
Didieron leads them back to Brooklyn – and one of Zeke’s traps.
Today’s episode of DEADLY DRAMATICS:
Episode 83: With Zack at the Cedar Tavern on Christmas Eve
A Christmas drink with a new friend gets Nina swept up in Zack’s large, exuberant family.
This episode ends the second arc of the series. You can binge read the first two arcs now, and continue on for the third arc.
Saturday’s episode of DEADLY DRAMATICS:
Episode 84: Dead in the Dryer
Nina retrieves show laundry from the theatre dryer and discovers the body of a colleague.
This begins the 3rd arc of the season, and takes place almost entirely backstage.
Sunday’s episode of DEADLY DRAMATICS:
Episode 85: Nina Explains How the Shows Run
The complexities of multi-show theatre spaces add suspects.
Monday’s episode of DEADLY DRAMATICS:
Episode 86: Green Room Talk
The company discusses the murder and the consequences.
Tuesday’s episode of Deadly Dramatics
Episode 87: The Shows Go On
Nina works her two shows and covers the murder victim’s job.
That should keep you busy reading over the next few days!
Got up the blogs. Did some more planning for the trip to my show and back. All I can do is the best I can do, and not get frustrated. Mercury will be retrograde. Things are going to go wrong with travel. I am NOT looking forward to traveling the day before the eclipse and the day of the eclipse.
After meditation, I did a new video for the serials. You can check it out here, in case you didn’t see it making the social media rounds. I did all three versions – the TikTok, the wide that I can use on most sites, and the Instagram sized. I still want to make as much money as possible from them while they’re up, and since I’m finishing each season, readers will get a complete experience. Since they’re running until August or so, I’m going to keep trying to draw in as many readers as possible between now and then. As each serial completes, I will also do a video encouraging binge-reading.
Yes, this was a procrastination technique because I was putting off the work on Legerdemain!
But I managed to write another episode of LEGERDEMAIN, then edit both episodes, proof them, upload them, and schedule them for next week. Now, over the next few days, I need to write at least one episode per day, and wrap up all the other threads. The sequence around the protest with the big reveal around the coup will take several episodes, and then I’ll hint at some of where the threads that would have been in the third arc, but will now be in a separate novella, will head, and then do a resolution episode to end on a positive note. I doubt I can get all of that done this weekend, so some of it will spill over into next week, around the daily END OF PLAY pages.
The artist cohort is back on track; I had some material to submit to them, and we have our cohort work share on April 11. I have to decide what it is I will share.
I turned around two full coverages and finished one that needed about a hundred extra words on it. I have two more to do today, and one tomorrow, and that’s the pay period. Not what I hoped, but better than I feared. May April be a more lucrative month.
I send best wishes to everyone who celebrates the holiday this weekend.
Monday and Tuesday’s posts are scheduled – Monday with the week’s intent, and Tuesday is a special post about the 20th anniversary of this blog, Ink in My Coffee. So our usual Tuesday catch-up will be on Wednesday instead.
Don’t forget, Mercury turns retrograde on Monday. Back up your computers and gird whatever needs girding! This will be a bumpy one.
My bumps have already started. This morning, a cup of coffee fell over onto the printer and all the papers on the printer table. I hope I’ve wiped/dried out the printer well enough so that it will still work. I’m letting it dry a little longer before I test it. It’s not like the warranty (if it’s even still good) would cover this. I don’t have the luxury of careless accidents. It’s not cute; it’s not funny. It’s not an option. I mean, it’s one reason I keep the coffee two tables away from the computer, but I never had an issue with the spot from which it fell. Until this morning.
I did the best I could with the papers and they are out to dry on the front porch. I can reprint them – provided I still have a working printer.
Not a good way to start the day.
Have a good weekend, my friends!
