It’s Sunday on the weekend following my week off from work that I was finally able to take off to write. My goal had been to write four entries of My Darling Tragedy. My stretch goal was five entries. I wrote six, amounting to nine thousand new words over the nine days I had between the five workdays and two weekends. My usual monthly output when I’m working hard is six thousand words. So, the nine thousand words feels great. I now have ten journal entries in pocket. It’s nice knowing I’m ten weeks ahead of the online publishing schedule in case I run out of ideas or get stuck. Furthermore, I’m also happy with how these six new entries turned out. I hope my readers are happy with them too.
During the week I also finished reading two books: Small Rain by Garth Greenwell and The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura. I loved them both.
I also watched two films: Casino (1995, directed by Martin Scorsese), which is among my favorites, and The Rose on His Arm (1956, directed by Keisuke Kinoshita), which I really liked for its imagery, music, and ending. I mention this because, with my day job, keeping up with MDT, and meeting my reading goals, it’s not very often I’m able to watch films.
I also had a Silent Book Club meetup where our host announced she was retiring and passing the torch to me to take over the administrative and hosting duties. She began this chapter of Silent Book Club in 2018, and I’ve been attending since 2019, so it was a meaningful goodbye. I have big shoes to fill, as she was a great host. I’m now hosting two book clubs.
So, my month was really enhanced by being able to take a week off from work. But I see I have 152 work emails waiting for me Monday morning.