No day-by-day update this week. It was my last week at the contract I’ve worked for over a year, and prepping to start a new job this coming Tuesday.
I wasn’t quite as focused on capturing what happened each day of the week, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t busy…
Godspeed, Crazy Mike
I still don’t know if “Godspeed, Crazy Mike” will end up longer than “Under the Big Top,” but it will definitely be the second-longest Not About Lumberjacks story.
I’m seeing the end coming into focus, but there’s still a ways to go. With a new job starting up this week, I’m not sure how progress will be affected, but I don’t think it will have much of an effect on my schedule. It would be nice to get a good first draft this week and begin editing so I can soon record it.
As long as it is, I’m sure recording and editing will be a bit of an effort.
Choose Your Own…
Last time, I mentioned one of the things I have planned for next year is a sort of choose-your-own-adventure story…at least based off the way the books were put together. The books I mentioned ordering arrived, and I spent about 15 minutes jumping around to see how the story maps out.
I’ll probably end up creating two stories for that episode…one to record, and one readers can truly choose how it all plays out…
The September Silence
Each September, I take a month-long social media break. (Okay, so I still check out Instagram because it doesn’t feel like social media in the way Twitter and Facebook do. I know it can, but I mostly follow jugglers, animal sanctuaries, vegan cooks, and hikers on Instagram.)
It’s already five days in and it’s been nice.
One thing that seems to come with September are wasps occasionally getting into the apartment. So…ye olde Ziplok bowl and a piece of paper are out so we can catch and release the little boogers when they get in…
Television
Most of what my wife and I watch on TV are YouTube channels we subscribe to (mostly science and cooking) and science stuff on Discovery+.
But we also have Apple TV+. (We got it for Wolfwalkers and stuck around for Ted Lasso and a couple other things.)
I started watching Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Mr. Corman in the evenings.
It’s…uhm…well, it has its moments.
That might sound like I’m not a fan of it, but I’ve watched six episodes…so it’s doing something right. It’s uncomfortable, and I can be very hit-and-miss with things like that — but there’s enough going on that it’s not sent me away.
Out of nowhere, these strange little asides just happen: Mr. Corman floating through the clouds toward the moon…which comes to represent a human egg; a musical interlude with his mom, played by Debra Winger; a fight scene that is just bonkers.
If nothing else, Mr. Corman is a reminder of how much mood and vision can shape a story.
(I know it doesn’t sound like it, but I really like the show…)
Time to Write
Well, I woke up rather early this morning and wrote this before getting back to “Godspeed, Crazy Mike.”
Time to push this out and get back to the story…
(Here’s to a great week ahead!)
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