on making a living…

Today I have been slogging through the Dramatists Guild Sourcebook in preparation for sending queries to theatres about Twenty Days. It’s 4:00 pm, and except for biking down to the library to return some piano music and eating some pasta with chard, that’s all I’ve done all day.

It’s amazing how vague some theatres can be about what kind of material they want to produce, especially theatres that are trying to–somehow–be different.  They know what they mean, but I don’t. Well in any case, Twenty Days is not an experimental piece, just a good strong musical told well. I’m feeling hopeful.

Laurie and I received our royalty payments from History Theatre today, so that puts a nice cap on the day. I won’t think about my hourly rate of pay…that does not bear thinking about. Really, I wonder how I stay afloat, but I do.

At times like these I think about George Gissing, and thank my lucky stars.

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