by Ira | Aug 9, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Hit an actual wall today with the writing streak. Only four pages today, and then I realized I needed to call it quits and chill. It was the right choice 🙂 I’ll be back at it tomorrow (or Sunday, we’ll see). The last 150 pages are ahead. It’s gotta be vibrant and...
by Ira | Aug 8, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Another day, another ten pages biiiitches. Yeah! It’s easy for me to forget that I’m writing a book faster than I ever have before. It’s disorienting. As it always is whenever I’m doing something I haven’t done before. That disorientation is exhausting. I’m fighting...
by Ira | Aug 7, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Definitely struggling with the resistance at the moment, but what’s crazy is that I’m used to ten pages a day enough now that…I just do it. Even though the resistance part of me is freaking out and trying to put a halt on everything—for no other reason than just, I’m...
by Ira | Aug 6, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
My car has two new tires. The old ones turned out to be EIGHT YEARS OLD, which is wild…but I’ve only put like thirty or forty thousand miles on them in that time (hey hey, the benefits of working from home!) so the single flat didn’t mean it was necessary to change...
by Ira | Aug 5, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Ambiguity is when something has multiple meanings at the same time. It’s not either/or, its and/with. Ambiguity is present in almost all great art. It’s deeply satisfying, and an acknowledgement of the real world we live in where so rarely we get a definitive yes or...
by Ira | Aug 4, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
I think I’ve learned something: I need a day off each week. I planned to write all the way through the weekend today, and get another ten pages down—seemingly easier than it was going to be yesterday, given I didn’t have anything planned outside of the house today—but...
