by Ira | Aug 11, 2021 | Challenge, Journal
Not aaassss stellar of a writing day today, but I suppose that was to be expected given yesterday’s monstrosity. I still wrote 8 pages. Good shit, too. Left off in the middle of a pivotal scene that I’ll probably rewrite a thousand times until it sounds right. Good...
by Ira | Aug 10, 2021 | Challenge, Journal
I count my progress in pages while I’m drafting a new book. Some people use words, but counting words is a little hard for me to wrap my head around. Not sure why, exactly. Page count has always made sense to me. It might be because I spent several years learning to...
by Ira | Aug 9, 2021 | Challenge, Journal
Season 2 of Ted Lasso just got real, y’all. Third episode. So good. First two episodes were fine, don’t get me wrong. Loved them both. Third episode was razor sharp. Peak Lasso. I…had a solid day today. I finished my outlining. What I built to gave me chills. It’s...
by Ira | Aug 8, 2021 | Challenge, Journal
You know…when you’ve written every day for this long, the entries truly do start to become a blur. This is the closest I will ever come to being able to conceptualize what two thousand eight hundred and thirty nine days actually feels like…and it’s not very close. I...
by Ira | Aug 7, 2021 | Challenge, Journal
Making this a quick one because it is WAY past bed time… As Josh would say: I’m gonna sleep in tomorrow. We casted. We watched Return of the Jedi and it was glorious. RotJ is not a perfect movie by any means, but it does stick the landing. It is a raucous good time,...
