by Ira | Oct 23, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
It’s been a while since I talked about journaling, and why I’ve been doing it daily (and publicly) for almost five years now. But, I have a friend who’s just starting to journal, and it made me think about why I picked this habit up, and why...
by Ira | Oct 22, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Hit another mile marker on the road to “finished” today: I completed the rough draft of Starstuff 2: Electric Boogaloo. Deja vu? Quite. See, I’ve finished a rough draft of this particular story twice before. This is the third “rough...
by Ira | Oct 21, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
I’m reading The Hero of a Thousand Faces right now. It’s a book I was first exposed to in High School. I took an elective English class called Mythology, and my teacher talked a lot about the book, the collective unconscious, the “monomyth,”...
by Ira | Oct 20, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
I am SO. CLOSE. Two chapters away. Maybe three. The manuscript is at 98,000 words. It’s finally, finally coming together. Still work to do, for sure. This rewrite will be a beast, methinks…but it’s coming together. What needs to be fixed, and how, is...
by Ira | Oct 19, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
First thought: what the balls is happening in this photo??? 😂 K. Moving on. Le Sigh. Today was better. Things felt less like they were exploding, falling apart, and otherwise changing forever. Which, to be clear, was always hyperbole. They weren’t...
