It late. Past bedtime. But it was a nice Saturday. I feel pretty exhausted and out of it…but it was a good day. We watched Mickey 17. It was…not good. Le sigh. But we had fun watching it together. Night night!

Thumbing it again tonight and wiped…but it was a good week this week. Found my rhythm writing again, which just feels…wonderful. Like relief. I even had some time to work on ads today. Get those going again. Finished my Shakespeare reading. Got to spend time with Bear...

Yall it is SO MUCH WORK, this outlining process, but it so very very satisfying to see a character or a scene start to come to life. The sketch is always fun, the rough shape…but this detailed outline (and then, obviously, writing the scene) is when I actually start...

Day started out like gangbusters today. I figured out how many scenes I need to aim for with each session. I think I was writing about it last night, but my outlining process is finally, finally starting to alllll make sense to me. I can see my necessary steps, now....

A much, much better writing day today, thank goodness. The entire story has shape. I have to go in and fix some stuff I’d filled out, and then fill out the majority of the scenes, but the loose sketch is all the way there, as of today. Each scene needs a spark of...

Good lord. Joy was just giving me nighttime kisses (licking the h-e-double-hockey-sticks out of my face)…when I felt something in her ear hair. Felt like a matte, so I picked at it a little bit, then realized it was something in there, like a bramble or something. It...

Oh jeez. Already sleep time. We can make it quick tonight, though. Batting cages with Wolfie, plus BotW and Mario Odyssey. Weird Al in the car. Nap with the dogs. Laundry. Finished watching the BBC Richard II. Now…sleeeeep.

Richard II I have ended up liking a bit more than I expected I would. It suffers from not-enough-happens, I think…but there are moments of brilliance in it, and the character of Richard is very interesting. He’s contradictory, and intentionally so, because it happens...

I stumbled this morning and didn’t quite get up on time…but I still got in my writing! Huzzah! A win and a loss, to be fair, but the bigger win in that is maybe even this time last year, I wouldn’t have done any writing after getting up late. I would have blown the...

Joy is alllll the way up on my lap, so we’re thumbing it tonight on the old iPhone. I do mean old, by the way. It’s far past time for a new phone. This is a…12? Yeah, pretty sure it’s a 12 Pro. Which means I’ll have had it for five years once the next phone drops this...