Yesterday & Today: 7th June

The best thing about yesterday was sorting out some of the practicalities for Crash on Saturday – sound, seating etc. – along with the fact that my morning run-through was, I think, the most fluent I’ve ever got it.

All of which suggests things are peaking nicely for the weekend! One more read-through tomorrow and then I should be good to go.

In the morning I attended a Society of Authors’ seminar on how to create a great book launch. It was comforting to know that I did a number of the things I was supposed to for my Zoom launch a few weeks ago, but perhaps better to pick up tips on even more I can do next time (for 17 Alma Road?).

After lunch it was ‘Write-on Ripon’, and for the theme of ‘partings’ I read the two closing poems from After the Rehearsals which are essentially about saying ‘goodbye’. These seemed to go down well. Apart from a little Twitter, this was about my day.

Today I will get back to some more Alma Road editing for sure. There’s nothing else on the calendar. I have some follow-up to do after yesterday’s seminar (linking with other writers) and will inevitably have some New Contexts: 5 admin.

I’m in the midst of a bit of a binge watch of Shakespeare plays at the moment, either film or stage versions. In the last month or so I have watched: two different versions of MacBeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, David Tennant’s Hamlet (Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius was brilliantly funny), Richard II (Ben Wishaw), and Henry IV parts 1 & 2 (Rory Kinear and Jeremy Irons). I still have Henry V to watch (Tom Hiddlestone).

I bet there are many many people thinking that this isn’t their idea of binge tv!

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