Wednesday, April 2, 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 1673:

It never did rain yesterday, although it did look like it might a few times. However, the temperature never went above 61 degrees, and it was windy and the weather ap would say, temp 61 but feels like 51! But with a heavier jacket on, my two, thirty-minutes walks were quite pleasant. I did have my scheduled phone call in the morning, but that was all, and as a result, I was very pleased to get 1008 words in the story written!

I hope to do equally well today. But first, trying to order groceries, but the website to do so seems to be not working. I may just need to go and walk and see if it is working when I get back. Otherwise, I have a tentative phone call, and more writing on my plate.

The groceries are finally ordered, and I did get in my first walk (very windy and chill.) Here is what the sky looked like as I left, and here is a gorgeous rose (this color may be my favorite) that I saw just as I was returning home.

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