Friday, June 6, 2025

Short stuff!

Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully. Occasionally, I will also publish some of my shorter fiction in this newsletter to read for free.

Daily Diary, Day 1738:

Edgar and Friends Report: All yesterday there was only one daddy long legs, back up on the corner above the sink. No reappearance of the spider I have been assuming was Edgar. But I could be wrong, it could have been Edgar up there, but this morning no sign of any daddy long legs anywhere in the bathroom. I wonder if they have some internal clock that sayd if no action after 24 hours, move?

Yesterfday, I did get in my two walks, although it never got sunny at all, which is unusual, since June gloom often provides a brief break mid-day for the sun to be out for at least an hour or two. Looks like today is going to be the same. Morning Mizzle!

Only had the zoom meeting yesterday, the phone meeting afterwards was cancelled. And I did get some work on the novella during the afternoon, but it was all editing, which meant I ended up with very few words written. But I did some journaling, plus of course the long post, so if you want to count these, I did indeed write a fair amount yesterday.

I also got a little more read of Pattern Recognition the seventh Gibson book I am reading (first book in 3^rd series). There is only one pov character, a female, who I quite like. Looking back at the previous six books by him I have read, I think that I have generally preferred his female characters, and they are getting better and better with each book.

Today, I have cleaned and ordered groceries, and after writing and posting this newsletter, I will walk. Then I hope that with the editing that I had done yesterday, I will be able to move on to a new chapter in the novella and get some more written in between putting groceries away and one scheduled phone call…and probably finishing the Gibson book and starting the next one. Sounds like a perfect way to spend a gray June day.

Here is an example of a large rose bush that several weeks ago was bowed down with blossoms. Yesterday there were only a couple of brown blossoms, a lot of petals on the ground, and this one bright spot of color.

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