David Bowie just passed away. News broke and first everyone was upset because they thought someone had hacked his account, but now it’s clear its true and everyone is much more upset.
Bowie wasn’t a huge musical touchstone for me early-on, but he certainly was one more recently. Well, relatively recently. I fell in love with Ziggy Stardust while Liz was doing a play with a bunch of Bowie references. My favorite certainly was Space Oddity. Always struck me as very Beatles-like. Kind of nonsensicle lyrics that nonetheless feel like they have meaning, catchy, space-related which is always my favorite, some fun musicality. I don’t believe Space Oddity is actually from Ziggy Stardust 😛 But that was the album that was referenced in Liz’s play, and the starting point of me really listening to Bowie for the first time. He’s just released an album only two days ago. Writing music till the end.
Anyway…today was a bit of a “day” today. One of those days where I felt a bit down, a bit mopey, which I always hate writing, but it’s true. I felt better after I’d done my writing, though, so that was good. See, I think that’s one of the reasons why I like doing my writing first thing in the morning: I don’t have time to have an up day or a down day yet. It’s just a “new” day, and I get my writing in right away. Later in the day, if I haven’t written yet, I feel like my mood is too influential on the actual writing. Like today, I’m really not sure if what I wrote is any good. My mood genuinely does seem to influence the quality of my work. I do, is seems, need to get “into it” when I’m writing.
But, I got to watch some football, which was fun. Hung out with the pups, took a solid nap, did some cleaning and organizing, and finished up the last bits of my editing work. I definitely earned my paycheck this week 😛 I actually worked more than I reported this week, but that’s okay. I’d much rather get done what I’m supposed to and miss a couple bucks than look bad. I’m sure there will be weeks in the future where I report a couple hours more work than I did too, so it all equals out.
I’m leaning towards going back to a set schedule, too, which actually feels exciting. Instead of two days on, two days off, I’d have set days of the week for work days. That means editing days. Writing days happen every day. And they have been! I think I missed one day last week. And, it hasn’t even been a struggle. Even today, I knew I was going to sit down and work for at least an hour, and I did, mood and all. I worked for an hour and a half, actually. I really dig it. I mean, I’m also on a deadline with this short story, so there’s that 😛 It’s due on Thursday. My rewrite will be done tomorrow, then I go through and do line edits. That will be done tomorrow, too. Then, hopefully, still enough time for the Ho to read it and give some notes, and then I work on those most likely right up until the deadline.
It’s going to be a scraper; I’m 350 words shy of the word-limit of 10,000 words. Yikes! But I can hack it. Even if I’m 11,000 after this rewrite, I know I can chop 1,000 words with my line-edit. I’m really going to count on that to get the flow of the piece. Rewriting as I am right now is very much like writing the rough draft – piece by piece, i.e.- not able to tell how it’s all flowing and fitting together as a whole.
Anywho, that’s all for tonight. The midnight bell has tolled. Good night to David Bowie, and good night to you all. Till tomorrow!