Well, dear readers, we are having some very windy winds here – trees have been felled and are blocking streets, brush fires have started, debris is running rampant, and certain areas are even being evacuated. Driving to our casting session this evening was very scary – not just the windy wind buffeting the motor car, but dodging debris, having to take other streets due to the felled trees blocking entire streets, and finding a place to park that wasn’t near anything that could fall or break, all of which I did with some alacrity, I’m happy to say. As to the casting session, it was surprisingly well attended, even though at least two people cancelled due to the windy wind. We were at Madelyn Clark rehearsal studios, which is literally ten seconds away from the Group Rep. They cancelled their rehearsal this evening, when the windy wind broke a window upstairs, and when it destroyed the marquee in front of the theater. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll use a few people who auditioned tonight, several of whom I’ve worked with before. Prior to the casting session it had been one wacky day. I was up at eight and out the door by eight-forty so she of the Evil Eye could do her thing. I met Robert Yacko for breakfast at Hugo’s. Prior to the pandemic, you could never get into Hugo’s in the morning – it would always be jammed, with long wait times to be seated. Yesterday morning, I waltzed in at nine to find not a single person in the restaurant but me, and soon thereafter, Robert. Crazy. We both had omelets – he had potatoes with his and I had a side Caesar salad with mine. We gabbed a lot and we left at ten-thirty. I went to Gelson’s and they had some lox slices so I got those and some cream cheese and some onion bagels. Then I came home and immediately began futzing and finessing, which took about ninety minutes until I got to the thing that’s been messing with my mind and which I’d already changed twice. I still wasn’t happy with the timeline problem, so I did more research, found a timeline that worked better and completely rewrote that section again. It was a lot of rewriting. Then I finally wrote a few new pages. I then called Muse Margaret and told her she’d have the first batch of pages in the morning. Then I showered. I reread the changed version again and still wasn’t happy with it. So, more research and I adjusted the timeline again and finally it worked just the way I wanted it to. I added three new pages to what was there previously. At that point, I was up to 110 pages.
When I got home, I had a bagel, cream cheese, and lox and then wrote a few more pages – with all the revisions I probably did write fifteen pages, but I’m not counting the revisions. As I was writing new pages, the Internet went down, so I switched over to the iPhone Hot Spot, which worked perfectly. But the Internet came back up five minutes later, so that was good. So, I’ve done about eight new pages so far and may go for another two or three before bedtime.
Today, I’ll be up by eleven, I’ll send Muse Margaret the pages, I’ll futz and finesse, write new pages, have bagels and lox for food, check with the mail place to see what’s what, write more new pages, and then at some point I will watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week is more of the same, hoping for a modern major miracle, and then doing whatever needs doing.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven, send Muse Margaret pages, eat, check with the mail place, write new pages, hope for a call from Muse Margaret and really hoping she likes what she’s read, and then I can watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear readers any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I hope I shall NOT be dreaming of the Windy Wind.