Man. We watched Sphere tonight, the movie based on the Michael Crichton book… It was so bad! Barry Levinson, what the fuck happened man?! SO bad. We loved it, though, in that way we love all horrible 90s movies. I remember one day we just watched Volcano, just because...

Making it a short entry tonight, only because I want to go to sleep on time and get up on time tomorrow. Busy day! Productive. Lost a little ground I had made up from writing extra yesterday, but that’s okay. I’m still within striking distance, and I’m SUPER HAPPY...

I’m wiiiiped. Not exactly what I love writing at 10:30 on a Sunday night, since I usually try to REcharge over the weekend. But, alas…here we are. And it’s great, actually. I got aaallllmost all my shit done today. I just sent off 67 pages to my co-writer, all written...

Another late night. And it was another movie! This time, it was with bear…we watched the last Bond film. It was…fine. Not great. Definitely wanted to tug some heartstrings that it did not. And that’s always unfortunate. Fukunaga is another one of those directs who is...

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...