Wed. June 26, 2024: A Good Day at the Keyboard
image courtesy of Pexels from Pixabay.comWednesday, June 26, 2024
Waning Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Sunny/Cloudy, Hazy, and Warm
Mid-week already!
Did another revision of the short story, “Serious Acting” and I was happy enough with it to send it off. It’s just under 300 words under the top of the word count, so I’m fine in that respect. Submitted a play to a call that’s only open for 3 days.
Saw that a call that went live only a day or so ago already filled up and closed.
Wrestled the newsletter into submission and made some edits. It should be fine to go out tomorrow. Set up the document for the September newsletter. I already know a few things that need to go in.
Adapted more episodes of DD into “A Stylish Death.”
Put together the full manuscript of CAST IRON MURDER (which I thought I’d done, but I’d only copied and pasted the first two chapters into the query, per the submission guidelines for the one publisher). I have to go over it, to make sure the page breaks are okay, and the chapter headings are clear, but at least I have that document. Started working on the synopsis. I’d planned to get it out on submission this spring, but once I sent it to the first publisher, I’ve been waiting and focusing on other things. I think it’s safe to say they passed, and I have a list of other potentially good matches, so I need to get all those out soon.
Turned around three small coverages. Received two more books for review. Did some more prep work for my meeting with Daniel tomorrow.
Saw a couple of short story calls over the next few weeks that I would like to try. One is coming up pretty fast, but it’s only 1k, and I have an idea percolating, so that should be do-able. I’d like to do another flash fiction piece for another call, too, and then two more substantial stories that would be due in autumn. Since coverage is light this week (which I’m both grateful for and worried about), maybe I can get ahead on that a bit.
Picked up my CSA box – yummy! Beets again, though, so I gave them to my yoga teacher, who loves beets.
Did the two hours of yoga, the second hour of which kicked my ass, but for the right reasons. Home, dinner was in the crockpot, so it was all good.
Tessa gained a new skill. I had my small umbrella in a bag and when I unpacked, a few days back, I left the umbrella on the floor. Tessa learned how to hit the button that makes it spring open. One would think it would scare her, but she is delighted. She’s even more delighted to sit beside the umbrella, wait for Charlotte or Willa to walk by and startle them. Charlotte just about levitates.
Yes, I’m taking it away from her today. I hate to deprive her of something that gives her so much fun, but it’s too upsetting for the other two.
I want to buy a big umbrella (it rains enough here for that), like a museum art umbrella. I haven’t found the one I want yet.
Slept fairly well (and had dreams related to dreams a couple of nights back – and WHY was a tarot spread with the Motherpeace deck underneath an arm chair in the dream?), but Charlotte and Tessa got me up around 3:30. I flat out refused to feed them that early, and moved to the couch, where I fell back to sleep (with Charlotte acting like a weighted blanket) until nearly 7. So it’s been a slow start to the morning.
On today’s agenda: work on “A Stylish Death”, work on the synopsis for CAST IRON MURDER, starting to get the edits into TAPESTRY, roughing out one of the short stories, grocery run, library run. Later this afternoon is tarot. I don’t have any scripts in the queue right now (which worries me), but I will be grateful for it over/under the worry, and focus on other things. I need to get a few things sorted for my farmers’ market artist residency, because I have to have everything ready for that before I leave for the NY show. I don’t want to be scrambling at the last minute on anything when I come back.
If it gets too hot, I’ll pack up and go to the Clark this afternoon.
Have a good one!
