by Ira | May 17, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I sent off my Story Grid Editor certification materials today. Whew. I hope they like them. Taking a break tonight from writing StoryGenius 3000. I’m really, reeaalllyyy tired. After sending off that 19-page document, I probably could have slept for the rest of...
by Ira | May 16, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
If you could write any story, Gary, what would you write? I dunno. A good one? What kind of question is that? I didn’t mean to upset you. Who’s upset? I just don’t understand why you’d ask me a question like that. Any story. I’d write all...
by Ira | May 15, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
There was no keyboard. Gary sat on the floor, cross legged and hunched, surrounded by packing foam that clung to his ratty clothes like snow. The StoryGenius 3000 too sat on the concrete floor. It looked like an old TV, the kind from a century earlier, with the...
by Ira | May 14, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It came on a particularly shitty Tuesday. A simple brown box. No markings. As advertised. It was smaller than Gary had expected, barely shin height, and it was two days earlier than the promised delivery date. “You gonna sign for it?” Gary closed his...
by Ira | May 13, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
Damn. I scratched my eye, I think. It’s all red and weepy rn. Hard to see and type. Le sigh. I had a solid day today. I’m working the building again, which definitely threw me out of sorts a little bit…but honestly, it was totally fine. Bear, you set...
