Twas a week of burnout, I’m afraid. Inevitable. It wasn’t from lack of trying. I grinded. Still came up short. It’s okay. It happens. Especially because I’m so close to finishing. I’ll get up tomorrow and Sunday and write more pages…but the final push is now next...

Wrote a really intense scene today. Took it out of me. The most intense scene I’ve ever written, to be honest. The most horrifying. The most heartbreaking. I…didn’t expect it to be so intense. At least to write. I knew it would be pretty gut-wrenching from a...

Watching a Grand Designs right now about a family (a dad) building their own house with no money and it’s taking ages…and I remember this house. I believe it doesn’t get done in time for the first episode so they come back to it later…and I might be conflating it with...

A non-starter day. Blech. Didn’t have the focus. But I will tomorrow. The full day. That’s all I have to say about that. I started Portrait of a Lady on Fire and it is already fantastic. Moving. Doesn’t explain itself but crystal fucking clear. The *sound* is...

We watched a really cool episode of Grand Designs tonight that was about a lifeboat house—one of those ones built right on the beach with the launch ramp attached so the boat can be deployed at any time, like, from the Coast Guard—that this older couple was converting...

The My Chemical Romance show is pretty spectacular. Might be the most impressive concert I’ve ever been to, at least in terms of storytelling and theatricality. I was really, really impressed. And their music is also just so good for live performance. Very glad we...

Had an author hang today, and it was delightful. It was just four of us, but that made it so easy to have a nice long catch up. One author I knew decently already, but the other two I’d only ever met very briefly, so it was really cool to get to know them. Community...

Passed the 400-page mark. Milestone. I have another full day of writing tomorrow to make up for what I lost this week and last…but then I’ll basically be right on target. One more week I think? Maybe a couple days past that? We’ll see. Night.

A family member had a little health scare/episode today. They seem to be okay now, but positive thoughts are appreciated. I’m positive about the outcome. I think they’re going to be fine, but you can never take that for granted, you know? Always a little scary. I had...

Today was almost a wipeout. But it wasn’t! That was the win today, no question. I was right there, sitting in my chair, listening to the little pre-meditation thing, and the voice in my head telling me I just didn’t have it to finish the day out was STRONG y’all. It...