Thurs. Oct. 24, 2024: Today I’m an Audience Member!

image courtesy of Holger Langmaier via pixabay.com

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Waning Moon

Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde

Cloudy and much colder

You can read the latest about the garden on Gratitude and Growth here.

Yesterday morning was spent rewriting “Effie.” Lots of tweaks and tightening. It wound up with about a page worth of cuts, throughout the whole piece (it’s a one-act, runs a little over a half hour, so it was only 30 pages to begin with). But it was a case of working beat-to-beat, rebuilding some of the beats, making cuts, rebuilding the beat, and so on.

Took a lunch break, then turned around the six small coverages.

Went back to “Effie” for some final tweaks, proofed it, saved it, saved it as a PDF, and sent it to the director. I’m waiting for his thoughts on either more tweaks, or if he’ll send it on to the actors.

Cooked dinner, read a little in the evening. Bea hung out close by, either on her rocker or in the kitty condo. Didn’t go to bed much earlier than usual, but slept well. The cats routed me out of bed at the usual time this morning, and I got going on my day.

I’m posting this early, because I have to be out the door a little after 8 AM to make a 10 AM curtain down in Lenox. I’m going to a morning matinee of WAM’s GALILEO’S DAUGHTER down at Shakespeare & Company. We had talked about me seeing the play back when we had our meeting in August as part of our “getting to know each other” process, and I’m excited to see their work. Because the rehearsal schedule for my show has to remain flexible, I figured I’d book a time when no one in LA would be likely to rehearse! So it all works out.

I’m going to eat something, get dressed, slap some makeup on, and get going.

Fingers crossed some script coverage comes in for the afternoon. If not, my attention goes back to finishing the revision of STRANGERS and working on the funeral scene for I WILL BE DIFFERENT.

Unless the director needs more work on “Effie” in which case, that will take priority.

I’ll start the next book for review, too.

It’s about 20 degrees colder today than it was yesterday, and it may rain on and off over the day. I think our stretch of beautiful autumn weather is done.

Have a good one!