by Ira | Sep 5, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Reporting live from the surface of the gawdam sun tonight. It’s still…95º outside at 10:30 in the evening. Got up to 112º today, and you could feel every degree of that shit. I mean, it was HOT. The hottest it gets here in LA — though there was one year, I remember,...
by Ira | Sep 4, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I’m going to finish my book tomorrow. I think. We’ll see how long these last scenes turn out, but it really is just one more little action sequence, and then the very last scenes. The wrap-up. Setup, really, for the next book, seeing as this one is a two-parter....
by Ira | Sep 3, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I’ve been with my wife for twenty years, today. That’s including the time we spent dating. CRAZY RIGHT? Twenty years. It’s wild. So grateful for her. So grateful for the life we’ve built together. It’s late, already. We just spend like half an hour just talking about...
by Ira | Sep 2, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Fifteen pages today! Zonnkkkkkeeeddd…but yeah. I got them pages done. Just a couple more sequences one, only one of them a major one. I did not get the reading and editing done, however. It took all I had to get the fifteen pages out. So…that’s okay. That’s another...
by Ira | Sep 1, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I should hit juuuust about 100 thousand words tomorrow on the book. HOOOOOOMMMEEEE stretch. I am wiped. Fifteen pages (that’s about 3,600 words, give or take), plus another 25 pages of reading/editing. Whew. Zapped. Zonked. Zilched. I do it again tomorrow, which...
