I think it’s been nearly a month since I posted here (notwithstanding the flurry I just made).\u00a0 We had a 3 week vacation to the Philippines, for my ‘rents-in-law’s 60th wedding anniversary and my father-in-law’s 85th birthday.\u00a0 It was a long, arduous trip, 36.5 hours door-to-door on the way out, 45 (!) hours on the way back, though 7 of those were in a hotel.\u00a0 I blogged about my thoughts here, if you’re curious (read from the bottom to the top):<\/p>\n
https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/category\/phildiary2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n I got some work done on Treasure Hunt<\/a>, though not as much as I’d have liked.\u00a0 I wanted to get a schedule put in place, but eventually decided I wanted to extend my program that split each scene into a web page to also calculate page lengths, which wasn’t something I could do on my Chromebook.\u00a0 I’ve been so f-ed up with jet lag up to this point that I haven’t been able to focus when I get home from work (as an apropos example, yesterday afternoon I lay down for a brief nap, then woke up at 1:30 AM this morning and am typing this at 3 AM as I’m wide awake now).<\/p>\n I completed the first draft on the sequel to RedDom<\/a>, which I titled “The Dominatrix Was Blue<\/a>.”\u00a0 I’m very happy with it, except for it’s length.\u00a0 I seem to have a perennial problem with things being too short, though when I mentioned this to a screenplay editor she said not to worry, things almost always fill out during the refining process.<\/p>\n I found myself a DP<\/a>.\u00a0 I already have a sound guy (buried in this post<\/a>) and am now preparing to start casting (the four principal roles<\/a>, if you’re curious).\u00a0 First I have to be able to go the afternoons without passing out.\u00a0 I thought I achieved some mastery over naps last weekend, as I was nap-free on Saturday and Sunday, but yesterday proved that to be an illusion.\u00a0 Sigh, maybe tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think it’s been nearly a month since I posted here (notwithstanding the flurry I just made).\u00a0 We had a 3 week vacation to the Philippines, for my ‘rents-in-law’s 60th wedding anniversary and my father-in-law’s 85th birthday.\u00a0 It was a long, arduous trip, 36.5 hours door-to-door on the way out, 45 (!) hours on the … Continue reading “Why so quiet?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dominatrix-was-blue","category-treasure-hunt","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithalanwriter.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}