Made a step forward today on my troublesome scene! A good step, I think. We’ll see how it reads in the morning, but I think it may have been a genuine step forward. It involved dialing the scene down. I think I may have been forcing too much (unjustified) emotion into...

Anxious today. I really, really want to finish this book. It’s fighting me hard. I took a day off today because I think I needed it…but it made me anxious anyway, sitting around and/or doing stuff that wasn’t finishing that book. I’m going to work on it tomorrow. It’s...

I’ve realized something about me and my writing, and I’ve realized that it’s totally natural, and I don’t need to try and not be this way at all, it’s just part of the process… I get grumpy about my writing when I’ve written something that I know doesn’t work, and...

Writing a book is a very, very humbling experience, y’all. It’s up and down. I was up two days ago. Top of the world up. This book will be finished by NIGHTFALL up. Well…I’m still a ways away. All it takes is one scene that doesn’t turn out the way it seemed like it...

Not aaassss stellar of a writing day today, but I suppose that was to be expected given yesterday’s monstrosity. I still wrote 8 pages. Good shit, too. Left off in the middle of a pivotal scene that I’ll probably rewrite a thousand times until it sounds right. Good...

I count my progress in pages while I’m drafting a new book. Some people use words, but counting words is a little hard for me to wrap my head around. Not sure why, exactly. Page count has always made sense to me. It might be because I spent several years learning to...

Season 2 of Ted Lasso just got real, y’all. Third episode. So good. First two episodes were fine, don’t get me wrong. Loved them both. Third episode was razor sharp. Peak Lasso. I…had a solid day today. I finished my outlining. What I built to gave me chills. It’s...

You know…when you’ve written every day for this long, the entries truly do start to become a blur. This is the closest I will ever come to being able to conceptualize what two thousand eight hundred and thirty nine days actually feels like…and it’s not very close. I...

Making this a quick one because it is WAY past bed time… As Josh would say: I’m gonna sleep in tomorrow. We casted. We watched Return of the Jedi and it was glorious. RotJ is not a perfect movie by any means, but it does stick the landing. It is a raucous good time,...

Not a stellar day on the writing front. I’ve hit a patch where there’s some indecision. I’m introducing a new character, one that I’ve kind of written myself into a hole as someone who swoops in and saves the day, and I want that to makes sense, be believable, etc...