by Ira | Aug 6, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
My car has two new tires. The old ones turned out to be EIGHT YEARS OLD, which is wild…but I’ve only put like thirty or forty thousand miles on them in that time (hey hey, the benefits of working from home!) so the single flat didn’t mean it was necessary to change...
by Ira | Aug 5, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Ambiguity is when something has multiple meanings at the same time. It’s not either/or, its and/with. Ambiguity is present in almost all great art. It’s deeply satisfying, and an acknowledgement of the real world we live in where so rarely we get a definitive yes or...
by Ira | Aug 4, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I think I’ve learned something: I need a day off each week. I planned to write all the way through the weekend today, and get another ten pages down—seemingly easier than it was going to be yesterday, given I didn’t have anything planned outside of the house today—but...
by Ira | Aug 3, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Oh boy, it’s late. I (almost) hit 200 pages on the manuscript today. Woohoo! Should be good for at least halfway done. We’ll see. Some fun POVs in this book. It’s a few characters I haven’t spent much time inside their heads to this point, and/or their brand new. So,...
by Ira | Aug 2, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Ten more pages. Boom! Happy about it. Action sequence today, which meant the words flowed pretty easily. I ended the chapter with a moment I’m not happy with. It’s not quite right. I’ll tweak it later. Work was slower today, finally. Still decently busy, but not AS...
