by Ira | Jul 6, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Day 3 of the writestravaganza. Thirty pages in. Things are going well. They should, because openings are rather easy. You know…I’m not concerned about it at all, actually. Lol. Genuinely. I figured out most of the potholes in my outline. I’ve done this a few times,...
by Ira | Jul 5, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Twenty pages done. Feeling like a rock star. Here’s the thing: it’s going to get harder. Probably several times. I’ll hit a part of the story I thought I had figured out, but realize I didn’t, or what I have doesn’t actually work. And it’s going to get REALLY hard to...
by Ira | Jul 4, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Ten pages. My new book is ten pages long, as of today. Right on the MONEY. Whew. And it wasn’t that hard, guys. I just did it. The power of an outline. A scene I outlined MONTHS ago…but it stuck in my head just as fresh as when I wrote it back then. It was living in...
by Ira | Jul 3, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Our neighborhood is going to be pretty exuberant with the fireworks, I think. I don’t know if they’ll necessarily be exploding on our street, but they will certainly be going off all around us. Luckily…Coops has been completely non-reactive thus far. Making sure he’s...
by Ira | Jul 2, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
It was actually a busy Saturday. Therapy. Coco treadmill. Those two things really kind of took up most of the day. Sigh. Days off can be hard. Today wasn’t. BUT…I do have so much to do…I’ve really let it grow kind of giant in my mind, I think. I need to just buckle...
