by Ira | Aug 5, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Going to bed tonight, I have battle scenes swimming in my head. The film Midway is not good. But, the events its based on are fascinating. And Navy battles are very prescient for the novel I’m currently writing. So…that was a fun way to end the evening. A’s won....
by Ira | Aug 4, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Had a great discussion with Josh tonight about villains and the nature of evil for next week’s podcast. It’s a corker. Keeping it short tonight because I need to hit the hay, but today was hectic, but successful. I wrote. I worked. I did building stuff. More of that...
by Ira | Aug 3, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Has to be a quick one tonight. Gotta get up on time tomorrow. I flubbed my alarm this morning and ended up oversleep a half hour, ugh. Not tomorrow! Hectic day. Didn’t get any of my normal routine done, and not much work either. I’ll be okay. I can catch up tomorrow....
by Ira | Aug 2, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Really, really great therapy session today. Jillian helped me realize that my success comes not so much from the goals I set, but from demystifying the work itself that’s necessary to get there. Which is to say: focusing on the goal or the outcome doesn’t help me....
by Ira | Aug 1, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
I just crunched numbers on what it would take me to write (and rewrite) a book in two months, which is still twice as long as some people I know can do… It scares me. I think it would take me three hours a day, consistently, for 40 work days to do it. But,...
by Ira | Jul 31, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
All this difficult can become easy. The first word I thought of was ‘hard,’ but that’s not quite right. The opposite of ‘hard’ is ‘soft’ 😛 But ‘hard’ is what I was thinking of, in the sense of writing is hard. Doing pushups is hard. Working from home is hard. Until...
