Weekly Writing Intentions: June 10, 2023
Daily Diary, Day 1012:
First my week in review. I did achieve my goals in terms of working on the short story, polishing and posting scene six, writing and posting scene seven. And I continued to do well with exercise, averaging more than 90 minutes a day, walking every day but Sunday, when I do my major weekly cleaning.
I also got out a monthly promotional newsletter, got ready for the major promotion of my discounted Caelestis series boxed set for Monday, and prepared and did the interview about the workshop on self-publishing I am doing for the Historical Novel Society Australasia in July.
As for my intentions for this coming week, I don’t see why I can’t continue to keep my exercise pattern going, and I might even be successful in getting the short story draft done, or at least the next two scenes, which should leave me only the epilog. At this point, since the story is over 10,000 words, which puts it officially in what is called the novelette length, I will probably turn the “scenes” into chapters for the final draft.
We are continuing to have very gray, cloudy weather, although every other day or so we get a couple of hours of sun in the late afternoon. The only difference this month is that some of the days are getting into the low 70s, and some of the nights are not dropping down to the fifties, which has been the standard up until now. This means my husband and I might even contemplate taking off the down comforter soon!
It did drizzle during my morning walk today, and some showers are predicted tonight and tomorrow morning, but otherwise, just normal June Gloom. On the other hand, I just read a local newspaper article that announce that this weather pattern has actually been longer and more intense this year than normal. The average cloud cover in May is 68.9%, this May it was 82.5%, and the average high for May was only 66.5 degrees, the fifth coolest on record.
What everyone agrees is that this year the cloudiness started early, so now people have started to name April, Grapril. In addition, people, fearing the trend is going to continue past June are trying to come up with something to come up for a term for July if that happens. Two suggestions I have heard are “July No Sky”, and “July Sigh.” I am definitely leaning to this last one.
For me, it isn’t so much the clouds that bother me—but the lack of any variation. But, hey, no fires or smoky skies or difficult breathing yet, so I am thankful, and the roses sure have enjoyed it!