Real Life took a BIG bite out of my writing time this week - on Wednesday I ended up having to go on in the Broadway show I've been understudying (with only four hours' notice and NO put-in rehearsal) in the leading role. Most of those four hours were spent trying to run lines and review staging while the wardrobe and wig crew got me ready to go on. I ended up doing three performances, and most of it is still a blur. By the third performance I'd settled down enough to enjoy playing a starring role on Broadway, but the experience was so surreal that I'd almost think it didn't happen except for evidence like this:
Fortunately our lead has recovered and is back now, and I've returned from the rarefied atmosphere of the star dressing room to my little station on the theatre's fifth floor.
Prior to the proverbial shit hitting the fan, the week had been pretty productive: I had written about 1k on my Camp project, read my requisite Guardian articles, submitted a short story to Shimmer Magazine and surpassed my reading goal (read
Lincoln in the Bardo, which I loved, and two Discworld books).
I was actually packing my birding bag to go on a nature walk (goal #2) when I got the email from my publisher saying "oops, forgot to mention that the FISKUR cover reveal is today."
So I had to drop everything to do a social media blast, update my website, etc. (The new cover is in my sig below.) Now I have to write the dedication and acknowledgements pages for FISKUR, so I've added that to my goals, and suddenly the end of the month seems to be LOOMING. Not sure I'm going to get those walks in or that blog written by April 30th, but I'm going to try.
1. Camp Goal - 60k revision/rewrite of Book #4 -
currently at 45,442
2. Three one-hour (or better) nature/birding walks -
not yet
3. Read five books -
6 of 5 DONE
4. Write at least one blog post -
not yet
5. Read at least three "My Writing Day" essays from The Guardian series per week -
3 of 4
6. Submit a short story to at least one market -
DONE
7. Write dedication and acknowledgement pages for Book #2