Anything But Write

[mmerriam]

It looks like we received around 10 inches of snow here in Hopkins, MN. A respectable storm, but not the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination.

Refusing to let a little thing with the weather slow us down, careswen and I proceeded with our packed weekend, spending Friday night at williamofoccam and pezwitch's house, leaving somewhere are midnight.

Saturday morning careswen and I missed the Home Owners Association Special Meeting because – well, because. Saturday night was Game Night. I think it was a good session. I tried to get some much needed information into the hands of my players without just handing it to them. There was plenty of food left over from the last two events, but now it is all but gone. Which reminds me, pezwitch left a partial can of smoked almonds here for the next game session. Sadly, I have eaten them all and will now need to buy a new can by this Saturday. Alas.

Sunday morning I ventured into Uptown for the Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network meeting. The group has decided to put together an anthology to showcase member's work. I will be on the editorial staff. Except for discussing the anthology, I was pretty quiet and low-keyed. I actually sat quietly and worked on the first draft of a SF poem. Thank you wordswoman for letting me steal your pen and for the loan of paper. I shall never venture out in public without pen and notebook again.

After the meeting, I met careswen at Bryant Lake Bowl for the final performance of "London After Midnight" (yes, there is a theatre attached to the bowling alley.) It was a total hoot. The production company (Hardcover Theatre Company) gives away a hardcover book at the end of each performance by random drawing. I won a copy of The Complete Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, Volume #1. That night we came home and watched the movie Saved!, a slightly dark and off-kilter comedy. It was fun.

Today I have washed clothes, washed dishes, performed cat maintenance, shoveled snow, walked to the store, cleaned house, changed the bedding, paid a couple of bills, sent out resumes, engaged in email correspondence, read a few online magazines, and pretty much avoided the novel.

Yeah, I realized about thirty minutes ago I was actually avoiding the novel. I've hit a difficult stretch in the rewrite and I'm dreading tackling it. So much so that I've decide to call today a wash for writing. I'll finish the rest of the bills and do any other chores that need doing today. Tomorrow I will attack the novel full out.

Okay, I'm going to go and wrap-up my current To Do list so that tomorrow is all about the writing.

In Peace,
Michael

Comments

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

Bwaaahaa! (re: almonds) Please don't feel you need to buy more.. we were a bit tired of them ourselves, and just didn't want to bring them home. Glad they found a receptive audience. :)

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Almonds are one of those foods I cannot resist.

[mistoffo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed the show. It was hard to wrap up all those plotlines.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

at one point I realized the plots were about to start resolving and I leaned over to careswen and whispered, "We seem to be reaching critical mass."

We're going to see "The Cryptogram" Friday night. I'm looking forward to it.

[mistoffo.livejournal.com]

Good, I may see you there. Or Amy will. It's been very well received, I think you'll like it.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

It was all most excellent. We laughed so hard at some stuff, and other bits took my breath away. And the high death toll was an effective wrap-up device! My only complaint: None of the lovers wound up happy. But then, why should they?

Since it was the last show, Shanan said some very nice things afterward about people involved in the project, and what a phenomenal collaborative experience it was.

And the new Moriarty/Varney/etc. -- yum!

Thank you for your part in another entertaining theatre experience! You guys have been the major reason we started going to theatre again after moving to Minnesota.

[mistoffo.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!