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If you read my newsletter yesterday, then you know what this photo means.
ON DECK: WRITTLE 2 episode 105. I need to hustle a bit: filed a rough outline over the weekend, and I need to finish WRITTLE 2 before I go into the scripting on that project. Looking ahead, I need to plan space to do my polishes on the DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT scripts before we record.
INBOX: 71
LISTENING:
READING: I got sent some proofs from the next issue of INTERZONE that I’m working my way through with great pleasure.
ON DECK: wrapping up a draft, waiting on final casting, clearing the deck so I can spend the weekend in an outstanding outline document. Things be speeding up.
INBOX: 67. Waiting on a few things.
I just noticed it’s Friday the 13th. Huh.
ON DECK: I’m behind due to yesterday’s coffee failure! The newsletter got wrapped on Tuesday, thank god. Now I’m back in this script and either I will kill it today or it will kill me today.
INBOX: 71, I do have some outstanding emails to respond to
READING: BACK BLAST, Mark Greaney (research)
Coffee machine isn’t working properly. I have All The Things to do, which list now includes cleaning the coffee machine.
ON DECK: scripting, consultation gig, document drafting, production, finishing the newsletter, all the things
INBOX: 71. I’ll be in the inbox a lot today.
LISTENING: Night Tracks 8 Jan 23
SHIPPING FORECAST: I have two scheduled pieces today, I think, and then I need to catch up here. Onward.
ON DECK: wrote and filed a brief outline document for a possible new thing over the weekend. Today is WRITTLE2 episode 104 – all day, and I’m in that serial all week, as time is ticking away too fast.
INBOX: 65. Am on top of email and messaging. Good to go.
LISTENING:
READING: PALE-FIRE, Vladimir Nabokov
LAST WATCHED: CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, finally!
I was going to spend Saturday in the garden, but the weather forecast just flipped. So today is my full day doing garden work, and I’ll be writing through the weekend instead. Picking up messages after 5pm. I have had nowhere near enough sleep for this. But I do have an axe now. So it will all be okay. Probably. If I don’t sleepily chop my own leg off.
ON DECK: I rewrote two scripts yesterday, today I need to start the fourth script in the series and advance the other idea I’m working on to at least the concept-document stage, to see if it needs to be abandoned. Sometimes something needs to go back in the oven for a year or two
INBOX: 65. Available-ish, but I have some heavy mental lifting to do today.
ON DECK: rewriting PROJECT WRITTLE 202 top to bottom, concept work on WRITTLE 3 after 6pm, may be a little slow to return email and messages.
INBOX: 70
LISTENING:
ON DECK: Spending all day rewriting WRITTLE 201. And then on to notes for the third audio drama serial. I’ll be answering emails after 5pm at latest. Also need to refresh my RSS reading list and take some stuff out.
INBOX: 68. Should be back on top of email by end of the week.
LISTENING:
READING: THE EXPERIMENTAL FIRE, Jennifer Rampling
LAST WATCHED: both of del Toro’s HELLBOY films. Trying to get my head into a certain zone for an idea.