by Ira | Apr 21, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Sean Manaea, one of the A’s younger starting pitchers, threw a no-hitter tonight against the best team (and, arguably, best offense) in baseball! The Ho and I got to watch it live together. It was pretty magical. I remember the last no-hitter I watched. It was 8...
by Ira | Apr 21, 2018 | Film, Reviews
The only thing I knew about Pixar’s latest entry (before The Incredibles 2 later this year, that is, woohoo!), was that it did a wonderful job representing another culture, and that it was going to make me cry. Well…bravo on both fronts, Pixar. Bravo....
by Ira | Apr 20, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Quick entry today! The Ho and I had a long day of driving around LA today doing errands 😛 I checked A LOT of things off my list that I’d been putting off, and I’m glad I did. And doing errands is always so much more fun with Liz to do them with. We had...
by Ira | Apr 19, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Finally…a solid writing day. I wrote 1,500 *excellent* words today. This scene, this particular mechanism in my story, is *poppin*. I’m interested in it. It finally makes SENSE, and I’m digging it. It’s an asset to the story now. I realized...
by Ira | Apr 18, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Breakthrough! Oh, Lordy…I finally had a good breakthrough day today. Finally! Finally. I had a one-on-one about a month ago with an author far more advanced than I, and one of my takeaways from that conversation was that there should be a separation between...
