Hm. Some parts of this resonated with me, other parts didn’t. I think for me, the conflict is mostly about time and labor, not any sense that being a mother makes me less interesting as a writer. And I’ve definitely handed over a lot more of the labor to Kevin than she has to her […]
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Just finished first screenwriting class. Learned a bunch, am going to have to tear apart and rewrite my logline, which is just fine, that’s the whole point of taking the class, to get better. But it has been a long day, made longer and far worse by the Roe news, and I’m going to go
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What I want to be doing is puttering in the garden with my pets for company, and there’ll be some of that later, but first, I do have to get through at least a little computer work today. Angeli Primlani and I agreed to sign up together for a local screenwriting class (I say local,
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Watching Aaron Sorkin on Masterclass, starting to think about the screenwriting class I’ve signed up to start in a week. I’m supposed to have a pitch ready for critique soon. I’d like to do two different screenplays this summer — one of them, the pilot for a TV show, the other, a full-length feature film.
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Filling out my faculty activity report, due today. Everything is due today. I would like to stop working for the day, but not yet. Still, at least all the work seems to be adding up to actually accomplishing things, which is nice. ***** Please provide a summary statement (a short paragraph) of your salient faculty
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Taxes, filed, down to the wire per usual. Interestingly, I think this might be the first year I’ve made (a little) more than $100,000 in income as a professor + writer. Not that that’s all profit, even before taxes, since I have a lot of part-time staff help, supplies costs, travel expenses, etc. and so
One of the important things I got done last weekend was meeting one of my editors in person for the first time. You can get a lot of work done over phone and Zoom, of course, but there’s something really great about getting together and sharing a meal. The food at Red Rooster (in Harlem)
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“A subtle, quiet science fiction story about violence and bigotry and about the small, everyday choices we can make in order to reduce the evil of the world, even if it’s just in some small, flawed way. The story is about Jenny, who returns to her home planet in the midst of widespread and ominous
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We’ve mostly been subsisting on bread and cheese and fruit and such, but I was craving something hot (it’s a little chilly here), so we ended up going into downtown Highlands for dinner at Off the Hook. Alex sweet-talked them into letting us hang out in the upstairs room, where we were the only ones
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