Krill of Shadow

[ismo]

It was a surprising and superlatively nice day--72 degrees and sunny in November!--and I avoided the internet by wreaking great slaughter among the buckthorns. I sawed down some big ones after lopping off their thinner branches as high as I could reach. There are some that even I feel dubious about tackling. I think I may need the assistance of a professional. I'm mad that I didn't do this a couple of years ago when they weren't quite so big. But then, I didn't know they were evil, so I guess I had no reason to cut them down. I've made a fearful mess of the back yard, where the slain buckthorns lie around in monstrous heaps. It makes me anxious not to be able to clean them up myself, but again, I think I will need the assistance of someone with a big truck. For a small fee. My Fitbit grudgingly allowed me 66 minutes of "active time," but apparently will not dignify two hours of sawing down trees twice as big as I am and dragging them onto the lawn as "exercise."

In the afternoon, I had a Zoom call to discuss a writing job. It's only a novelette, contract work in a pulp style, so it's not as if it will be great art. But hopefully it will be fun, and I will get paid, and it will be in an actual book with a cover and, y'know, pages made of paper and stuff. So I'm happy about that. Now I just have to come up with a plot.

Now that it's past the full moon, I should move on with my Ecological Calendar into the next phase. But I have miscalculated somehow, and if it starts being Ember now, we'll run out of Ember before the end of the year. So I've decided it will jut go on being Shadow until further notice. Shadow is one of my favorites, anyway. It's appropriately poignant and melancholy.

Comments

[oracne]

Ooh, actual book! I will buy.

Am tentatively joining in on an ebook venture of all lesbian romances. I hope to make use of some material I already have and springboard off that into some actual from scratch writing.

[ismo]

Oh, good! It would be a jaunty though nameless feather in the cap of the Nameless if we both got published again! And I like the idea of from scratch writing. You put it in the oven and hope if bakes well!