Fri. July 14, 2017: Keeping it Up Under Pressure

Friday, July 14, 2017
Waning Moon
Saturn Retrograde
Neptune Retrograde
Rainy and cool
Bastille Day

For many years, I have looked upon Bastille Day as my own personal independence day. Back in the mid-1980s, it was the day I walked away from a toxic situation.

Yesterday, I got out some pitches, I worked on the YA story, I worked on SAVASANA AT SEA, I worked on some proposals. Worked on the article. I’m waiting for a few more responses, and I hope to have it all together and out to my editor by Monday.

I re-read Lilith St. Crow’s CLOUD WATCHER, a story I love. I want to read the whole series.

Some characters started yapping at me, so I took notes and wrote about a thousand words, trying to get them to shut up.

Submitted a pitch to a site that claims to pay writers properly; only they expect said writers to pay a fee to join their “club” before they’ll consider what you pitch. Um, no, that is not a professional outlet. I don’t pay to write; I am paid to write.

I want a weekend, although I know it will be all about writing. I need other pressures to back off for a couple of days, even as they intensify. I need some breathing space to think things through and make some decisions.

Tense day, but hopefully, it will be a useful weekend.

The MidMonth Check in is up on the GDR site here.

Have a good one!