by Ira | Aug 31, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
Cooper ate a cockroach tonight. We were outside letting them do their final pee business before bed, and the bugs were out. Crickets and cockroaches. And all the sudden, Cooper had his head bent down towards the sidewalk and he was crunching on something in his mouth....
by Ira | Aug 30, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I’ve decided that I need to reward myself whenever I complete a week solid of writing every day. As much as it’s worked for me in the past, and as much as I preach it to others, during this difficult stretch of writing, I’ve really struggled to...
by Ira | Aug 29, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It’s late. Hour past bed time, which has been the theme of this week. But for good reason! Josh and I got in two podcasts this week, which made up for missing one a couple weeks ago. We’re back to three weeks ahead of our release schedule, which I think...
by Ira | Aug 28, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I did a core questions breakdown today of all the scenes that I wrote and added over the course of the last week since I met with J. I had anxiety going into it. I was afraid that I would hate my writing, or that it was all going to be unclear and foggy and just feel...
by Ira | Aug 27, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It’s so late that I can’t really talk about this as much as I really want to, but I have had a breakthrough in my writing. A huge one. I’m enjoying it again. It’s easy again. And this time for real. I was able to crank out a lot of words over...
