Wed. Feb. 12, 2025: A Journeyman Writing Day
image courtesy of pixabay.comWednesday, February 12, 2025
Full Moon
Mars Retrograde
Cold and cloudy
Good morning! I hope your Tuesday was pleasant.
I followed up the Mayor’s office on the Commissions, and let my town councilor know I did so. I sent out a submission which is a huge stretch, but nothing ventured, and all of that. I got out another submission, too. I did the rounds of my elected officials. I requested my next assignments from my book review editor, and received them. I slogged through some email. I went through grant/residency proposals guidelines. The ones I’m most drawn to have rather complex applications, and I have to weigh the effort versus the potential reward.
I wrote about another 1K on the anthology story. I have a few more scenes and around 1900 words to wind it all up. I may have to cut a couple of scenes to stay within the word count. But I’m almost there. I nearly changed my mind on the murderer (again), but I can make it work with my chosen killer. I had to research some distances. I’m setting it at a fictionalized theatre on Cape Cod, in contemporary times, and I remembered some distances between points I’m using incorrectly.
In the afternoon, I read the next book for review, and did some work on contest entries. I also worked on the design for my text/textile project. I had assumed I would piece the entire project, but it might be easier/make more sense to piece the central design and then applique it onto the background, then build the borders. Building the piece that way would change the immediate background, but not the borders, although I may put additional narrow borders between the wider borders.
Heated up leftovers, read for pleasure at night, the next of David B. Coe’s urban fantasies set in Phoenix. I like his writing. I read some of his blog, and I enjoy that, too. He and his wife recently moved not too far away. I hope they are very happy in their new home.
This month, I switched to the Medieval Scapini tarot deck for the ancestor work. It’s inspired by the original Sforza deck (some of those cards are at the Morgan Library in NYC), and since I’m working with ancestors from the Italian side of my heritage (albeit quite a few generations back), that made sense. I bought the deck in a head shop in Adelaide, Australia when my show was down there, back in the mid-1990’s. People kept asking me for readings, and I hadn’t brought a deck with me. That taught me to always travel with at least one deck! I saw the deck in the shop a few times, and I kept coming back to it. I asked to see it, and the proprietor rolled her eyes and took it out. The minute I handled it, I knew it was mine, and I bought it. She was surprised, because she said everyone else who handled the deck dropped it, claiming it burned them. She figured it was waiting for me. It’s always read really well for me, and was the primary deck I used when I read professionally in NYC. I haven’t used it for quite a few years, but I’m glad I’m back to using it. It’s very accurate, although sometimes I wish it would be a little gentler!
I actually bought two decks in Australia. I have a major arcana deck I bought in the gift shop of a maritime attraction we stopped at on tour. It’s the Millenium Tarot/Tarot of the Four Worlds by M.S. Chamberlain with art by Ziba Villmanis-Westenberg. It’s a rare deck, from Australia, with only 1500 copes printed, and quite lovely.
Slept reasonably well. Fed everyone, did the morning meditation. I need to check in with the ghostwriting editors (I want the notes so I can move forward). The big thing I need to do today, other than working on the anthology story, is to head over to the grocery store with the rolly cart and stock up before the storm comes in tonight. Because yes, we are getting more snow.
So I better get hopping, hadn’t I? It’s supposed to warm up a bit later on, so I might actually try to dig out the car.
Have a good one!
