Shiiiiiittt…I am WIPED yo.

Two days of watching the building and trying to get writing done…wiped out.

Today I probably got the same amount of actual work done as I did yesterday, but for whatever reason my mindset was soooo much better. There was just a lot of stuff today that kept me from butt-in-chair time. And there’s nothing I can do about that. Gotta do what I gotta do.

I’m a couple hours of work away from finishing this first revision step, going through and reading everything. The story is continuing to become more clear as I work through. I just got to my act 2 break into the final act, and it’s there, and it’s clear…and currently under-justified and not earned…but it IS there, and justifying something is very doable. That’s what rewrites are for!

So, it was a much better mental health day today. For reals. I was much more focused, much happier whilst I was reading through and making notes, and I had some really good ideas.

I just noticed something else that was dope about today: I’m adjusted to my new keyboard! I’m flying through writing this entry like I’ve been writing on this thing forever. There was a very small part of me that was worried they’d do this keyboard slightly different and I wouldn’t like it so much…but it’s just as easy to type on as my larger one. I love it. Gonna sell my iPad now. Well, over the weekend anyway. Make back some of the cost I sunk into this new one.

I find myself wanting to use my new iPad more 😂 And it’s weird, guys, because I’ve had an iPad now since 2013. It’s what I started this entire blog on. My iPad Air. I remember being so sooooooo guilty for buying that thing. It felt like such an extravagance at a time that money was so tight…but I wrote my whole first book on that thing. I revised and wrote my second (and third) book on the next iPad I bought. I use the SHIT out of my iPads.

They’re not an extravagance. They’re my preferred writing method.

Still…it’ll be nice to get some of the cost back by selling that beast. I’d still be using it, actually, if it weren’t so big. This smaller one is soooo muuuucchhh niiiccceerrrr.

Thus ends the love story to an iPad.

I got to hang with Josh tonight. We talked about journaling, and how we’re both approaching it now, and how much…fun it is, and how healthy it feels to put out personal thoughts–and just any random thought in general–on a daily basis, and then get to just let them go, and sleep.

Josh had an idea for a podcast around convos like that: Josh & Ira: The Lost Tapes.

It definitely sounds like we got murdered…or disappeared into the Amazon jungle…now that I type it out 😂 But, really, it would just be all the random conversations we have that we don’t have a “box” to put into for Two Guys One Trek, or Film School. Because we have those conversations all the time, just about life and creativity and that kind of stuff.

Anywho…time for sleeps. Gotta get up tomorrow and have a good, full work day.

Good night. I hope your day was wonderful!