We watched The Lighthouse tonight for the podcast. It was CRAZY. I loved it. Not perfect, for sure, but it promised crazy and it delivered fucking crazy, man. Well done. That’s all I ask for. Next week we’re watching The Thing. Josh knows nothing about it. I can’t...

Okay. Four days in. That’s how many it took for Ira to not quiiiitteee reach his page count. But you know what that sound is? …nothing. It’s quiet as a church mouse right now, because I ain’t sweating it. That metaphor/sentence has so much wrong with it, but whatever...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Well…today was a mixture of no margin for error and paralysis. I had the morning get hijacked a little, and then failed to manage my time properly in the rest of the day to get my start on writing. I’m going to be okay though. It starts on Monday. And I can use the...

Ohhhh boy. Tomorrow is going to be a big one. Tomorrow is day 1. I haven’t exactly set myself up for success, which I’m realizing is resistance, BUT…I’m going to have to be resilient, you guys, if I’m going to do this 40-day writing challenge. I’m going to have to...

Ya. As expected…I did not write ten pages today. I…needed a day off. Or so resistance sold me on. And tomorrow, too. But, Friday is July 1st. It seems like a good day as any to start my writing bonanza. I’m…scared of it, but I’m also excited. I know I can do it. I’m...