One thing that I have been diligent about is copying the scans of all my hand-written notes (written mostly while at the Rex or Jazz Bistro or Hirut*) into several locations. However, I still keep coming across notebooks that I haven't scanned, and I think the plan this week is to pull all the notebooks together and see what has been scanned and what hasn't. (On the whole this is a good thing, though more effort...)
I recently came across the pages for The Trip (the bus ride from hell from Atlanta to Detroit), and I definitely want to type that up. I do wonder if I wrote the ending out somewhere else, as it doesn't seem to be a proper ending. But certainly the majority is scanned. I also found the hand-written notes for Dharma Donuts, but this I probably won't bother with, as I have typed that up (and then decided it needed a severe overhaul anyway). One of the more annoying things is I had typed up something (I think I called it Parkdale Queens or something), and I sent it off to SFYS but at a time they were using Google submission form, rather than me just emailing a PDF. And I simply cannot find the file, which is so incredibly weird. And then the folks at Assembly just gave up on running SFYS and stopped returning my emails (where I was just asking if they could flip that file back to me). Given that this piece (about a band that broke up) is something I wanted to share with Skye Wallace, it is perhaps my top "missing" piece.
I had thought I had scanned some of the early, early pieces of my planner epic, but I think beyond the very first scene, I hadn't done that. So I scanned that again (almost 20 pages of dialogue and notes!). Clearly, compiling this and putting it into some kind of order is a high priority. It's almost like a puzzle piece now, just going through what is scanned and how it is all supposed to fit together.
The single highest priority, however, is to find all the pieces of the Stratford BnB piece. I believe that is all scanned, just not labelled very well. I have even transcribed the 2nd part (and the 1st part is cleaned up and typed out, which is great). So I probably just need to transcribe the ending and get this whole thing into shape. I find out tomorrow evening if I am going to the Fringe or not. Then I will see if I can locate and finish the Parkdale Queens piece, and then maybe quickly pound out The Trip, then go back to the planner epic. If I ever finish this, I might go back to the piece about living in Toronto in the 90s and the immigration struggles my character had (in a parallel life where I did decide to try to stay on in Canada by marrying a lesbian...). It feels like this is all a lot of work, but at least it is generally emotionally rewarding doing this creative writing (and now trying to actually do something with it now that Toronto Cold Reads has returned).
* Last Sat. I had planned on seeing Pat LaBarbara at Hirut. I was there about 15 minutes early (the TTC was actually somewhat smooth for once), but the place was completely full. I thought I saw a spot at the back table where I usually sit, but the guy at the door claimed that the only thing I could do was grab a stool and sit by the door. I mean I am not that worried about comfort (and had a pretty uncomfortable spot at the Rex the week before for the Mike Murley gig), but I had wanted to eat the Ethiopian food and put my phone down someplace and try to write. I didn't see how I could do any of that sitting at a stool by the door, so I didn't bother. I ate at Thai Room and went home, feeling pretty deflated. (I guess I would have taken the stool if Neil Swainson had been on bass, but it was someone else.) There is a small chance I would come by on Jan 21 after La Notte at The Fox, though I could only catch the second set. I'm not entirely sure that is worth it, but I'll see how I feel at the time. Then there is a Mike Murley show with Reg Schawger and Neil Swainson in mid Feb. I guess for that one I will show up at 7 (an hour early) to make sure I get in!
I actually probably do need to book my ticket for Le Notte at least. I just found out that Mulholland Drive at Paradise tomorrow is sold out(!), but I will probably drop by anyway to see if they have a rush line like the Revue does.
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