Monday, March 10, 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 1650:

Another couple of days of sun, before the next storm is predicted. Yesterday it hit the low seventies, might do that again today, but tomorrow, 85% chance of rain and high 50s predicted. So, I am glad I have been able to get in my two walks over the past few days, since this might be difficult to do over the rest of the week.

This morning, after my regular cleaning, I did 10 minutes on the recumbent bike (getting my heart rate up considerably, which I don’t think my pace of walking does) and then Rio came for doggie play date.

Today I plan to build on the progress I made yesterday sketching out the first couple scenes of the Wong story. One of the aspects of this story that pleases me is that it is going to re-introduce some characters readers haven’t really encountered since the first book in the series. Not only will this be fun to catch up on them, but more significantly, I am pretty sure they are going to have a significant role in the next novel, so the work fleshing them out will help save me time as I get prepared to write that longer work.

In the evenings this past week, we have been rewatching the first season of Severance in preparation for watching season two. Tonight, will be the last episode, and I think that by the time we get caught up with the episodes that are out in Season two, all of them will have dropped. Definitely a show that works with both rewatching and binge watching. I think it is making more sense this second time around. We then finish the night rewatching old episodes of Mad About You.

Finally, leaving you with a photo of the single rose on a bush that usually is full of blossoms in the summer. Definite harbinger of spring.

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