We've passed the midpoint of the month, folks!
The HVAC replacement/repairs are done, and the house is cool again, thank goodness. As a result I hit my exercise goal for the week, so hooray for that. My short story got rejected, but it was a personal and encouraging rejection, inviting me to submit to them again. A much smaller
hooray for that.
My husband went out of town Thursday and I was really hoping to get a lot of writing done while he's gone. Unfortunately Friday I had an on-camera audition for an industrial video and it ate into the day. I wouldn't have minded so much except I think it was a complete bust. I don't often feel like I wasn't given a fair shake at an audition, but this was one of those times. First the guy I was supposed to read with complained because he hadn't prepped that particular scene, so they asked me to wait. Eventually they paired me with a young actor who hadn't prepared the scene either, and as a result the audition was kind of a mess. In an on-camera audition you try to be familiar with the script so you're not looking at it instead of your scene partner, so this guy was giving approximations of the lines instead of the actual lines, which messed both of us up. In addition, my part was small - only about nine lines - so at the end of the audition the director asked us to switch parts so I'd have more to read. Of course, I hadn't prepared the man's part, and it was weird because the scene was very gender-specific (it's for a sexual harassment training video). Both of us were dismissed afterward, so there wasn't even a chance to try it again. The young actor didn't even get to read the scene he'd been asked to prepare for. I was bummed for both of us.
I spoke to the marketing person at my publisher and she's dialed back the amount of material she needs for the virtual book tour for my upcoming release - apparently most of the participants want excerpts from the book rather than blogs, so I sent her five excerpts and one set of interview questions. She says I might want to write a few blogs just in case, and if they're not used for the tour she wants to use them on publishers website.
I hate writing random (unpaid) blogs to provide content for my publisher, so I can't say this is a priority for me. I have a feeling the virtual tour is going to be a bust, too - I think the publisher scheduled too many releases too close together to promote each one properly.
I also read a book this week, pretty much in one sitting: Kate Atkinson's
Life After Life. I had some issues with it, but overall it was pretty good.
[ ] Write 20k new words on rough draft of Book 5 -
2765 of 20,000
[ ] Write 10 guest blogs/other promo for Book 4 virtual book tour -
6 of 10
[ ] Exercise at least 2 hours per week
[x] Week 1
[ ] Week 2
[x] Week 3
[ ] Week 4
[ ] Week 5
[ ] Lose five pounds - 0 of 5
[
x] Submit a short story somewhere
[ ] Write two blogs for my website - 0 of 2
[ ] Weed gardens - 0 of 2
[ ] Read two books -
1 of 2