As ever, energy begets energy, which is very cool in some ways and maddening in others—I’ve received interest from a couple of different quarters in projects I’d formerly thought were defunct, which means Hey, great! I’m suddenly back in play with those, deadlines and everything, so I no longer have to worry about eating too much shit and watching too much crap TV…but then again, also means Wow, suck! I’m abruptly choked with work, on top of all the other crap I normally have to juggle.
Tomorrow’s Cal’s first appointment with a one-on-one TPAS worker, for example, which means he absolutely positively no-fucking-kidding has to make it to Daycare; Mom gave me a great, really readable book about early intervention (the best I’ve yet found, in that respect), but this now means I have to make Goddamn sure all the stuff it talks about gets implemented; Mom finally got her laptop, but this means I have to bring her old computer over, get it hooked up and get all my files transferred onto it sometime this week; etc.
And finally, most importantly of all…Mom’s going to be in Sudbury doing Rabbit Hole for a month as of tomorrow, which means she can’t take up the slack anymore. Like, at all.
So. The To Do list, as of right now:
Fix up Blood From the Air query package—particularly outline for rest of book—and send it off to someone who asked for it.
Make Last Things query package, same deal; in this case, write outline (which I need anyhow, since that’s what’s slowing down progress).
Fix up Lilim—as per notes, send off to other person who asked for it.
Fix up formatting problem with By Night, original draft., and send that off to the same person as one up, but not as three up.;)
"Imaginary Beauties"—outlined, half done, needs finishing.
Web-radio project manager wants a rewrite on "The Cage" script; Steve needs to re-send his latest version of "The Room in the Tower"; first draft script of "At the Poor Girl…" needs doing.
Less immediate additions—
"Strange Weight"—outlined, still some notes to input, needs finishing.
"The Underneath"—outlined, needs finishing.
"Faultline" scriptment—notes thus far inputted, not completely outlined.
"The Mercy Seat" scriptment—not completely outlined, stalled in Act Two.
"The Speed of Pain"—needs rewrite, as per notes; send out.
Lilim scriptment/novel outline needs to be checked/fixed; write Lilim novel query letter; fix up Lilim Chapter One; write Chapters Two and Three.
Send out "The Jacaranda Smile".
Plan out fiction digest project; get fucking website updated.
Contact Bill Burke; whup with Exit Zero?
Assemble new "best of" short story collection file for DailyLit.com, send.
Plan out "novel in poems" project.
Other than that? The blizzard, last night’s brief power outage (three hours, part of which made us miss the Sarah Connor Chronicles’ season finale yet again) and the Daylight savings time-change seem to have thrown all of us off our "A" game a tad—having no money (yet again) obviously doesn’t help. I’m hoping to up my productivity and maybe even work out tomorrow, but I guess we’ll have to see.
In slightly better news, meanwhile, one of my favorite students took almost everything at the TFS’s next-to-last graduate film festival on Thursday: Kyle "Mizzder Anderson" Anderson, his producer Pamela Sethi, his cinematographer Justin Chambers and his production designer Chris Araujo all won for Strangler in the Night, a ten-minute exploitation epic which plays like the bastard child of Roger Corman and David Lynch. They’re all good people, so I’m happy for them…but you know? There really wasn’t anything bad shown at the fest this year, which amazes me beyond measure. I guess we’ve all been doing our jobs. Too bad that doesn’t seem to have counted for much overall, in the long run.
Ah well. At least I’m keeping busy, right?;)
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