I don’t seem to ever do well with these “days off.” I forced myself to a certain extent to take the day completely off today. I plan to do somewhat of the same tomorrow…though perhaps not. I’ll probably do some apartment cleaning, some chair shopping, and some laundry. But these amorphous, floating days off always seem to make me feel weird. Disconnected. I do better with a plan.
I have a deadline coming up for my Trek short story, and not a lot of work is getting done on it currently. I need to fix that tomorrow. I’m going to print it out and make hand-written notes on it. Somehow, that feels like progress. It’s short enough, too, that I can print it at home.
The other thing tomorrow I want to try and get settled…or at least make headway on…is my office writing chair. I’m looking forward to using it. It’s going to bug me not to have it now that I have the space set aside. It’s time to find one. I thought I found one on the Target website, but the reviews said it was super uncomfortable, and given that I want to sit and write in this thing for hours on end, “uncomfortable” just isn’t going to cut it. So, I think I need to buy a chair that I can actually sit in before I commit $$$ to it
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That last bit was written by Liz’s forehead and chin, FYI. Beautiful stuff.
We watched the first couple episodes of The Expanse tonight and were tepidly interested, but underwhelmed. Some early mistakes being made in terms of characterization and story building. NOT world-building…but story building. Like, what am I latching onto here? Who am I rooting for and why?
Not to say that kind of shit is easy, mind you. It’s not. I can’t seem to nail it down in my own script, to be honest. I think I make most of the mistakes that these guys are making…but we still have to draw that line between what’s good story-telling and what isn’t, you know? Because we’ve all seen how magical it is when done correctly. THAT’S the goal. That’s what I’m reaching for, and I’m sure what they were too…but once it’s up on the screen, the only thing that counts is if you were able to make the magic happen, not how hard you tried. They’re not quite there. But, we’ll see what the rest of the first season has in store.
That’s all for tonight. I’m conking out. Nighty night.