by Ira | Jul 9, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Twenty pages complete on the latest manuscript! Boom Shaka Laka. Feeling a bit zonked about it to be honest…but I know now that’s normal for me. I get zonked when I first get into the swing of things. It’s a disruption of the status quo, which always makes me feel...
by Ira | Jul 8, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Ten pages. It has begun! I truly am the happiest when I’m drafting. The story is there, ready for me to just live it, and living it is the best part. Got through ten pages today pretty easily. Ten again tomorrow is the goal, and ten more after that, and so on till...
by Ira | Jul 7, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Home. We started watching The Fugitive tonight, which neither of us has ever seen. We know about it. obviously, but neither of us has actually seeeeen it. It’s so good! Instantly good. And it’s funny, because the opening act is very old school — the escape from the...
by Ira | Jul 6, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Got to spend the day with Ashika and Aavya (and Joe and Madhuri) today. It was GRAND. Exhausting, as kids are—Ashi is 4–but grand. We had a great time reading and coloring and playing games and eating food and generally just being silly and enjoying each other’s...
by Ira | Jul 5, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Man, that Neil Gaiman podcast is rough, y’all, and I mean that in that Neil Gaiman is at best incredibly problematic and at worst is a goddamn monster and predator. Gut-wise, I can tell you I’m leaning towards the latter, but we’re only one episode in, so I’ll see how...
by Ira | Jul 4, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Fireworks are going off outside. Big time. It was quiet the first couple years here, I remember now…but then we had a big time fireworks family move in a few houses down, and now its wild out there. We don’t mind. I get it; fireworks are fun. People look forward to...
