by Ira | May 19, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
Game of Trones is dun. Tonight’s episode was 🤷♂️ By itself, it would have been astonishingly bad. Taken out of context, it would be like “…how is the the same show?” But IN context…it was the result of the...
by Ira | May 18, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I went to the Nebula Awards dinner tonight. I…really enjoyed myself. The group I was with didn’t win any of the awards they were nominated for. Unfortunately. But, I still enjoyed the speakers and the speeches, and generally just the celebration of artists...
by Ira | May 17, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I sent off my Story Grid Editor certification materials today. Whew. I hope they like them. Taking a break tonight from writing StoryGenius 3000. I’m really, reeaalllyyy tired. After sending off that 19-page document, I probably could have slept for the rest of...
by Ira | May 16, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
If you could write any story, Gary, what would you write? I dunno. A good one? What kind of question is that? I didn’t mean to upset you. Who’s upset? I just don’t understand why you’d ask me a question like that. Any story. I’d write all...
by Ira | May 15, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
There was no keyboard. Gary sat on the floor, cross legged and hunched, surrounded by packing foam that clung to his ratty clothes like snow. The StoryGenius 3000 too sat on the concrete floor. It looked like an old TV, the kind from a century earlier, with the...
by Ira | May 14, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It came on a particularly shitty Tuesday. A simple brown box. No markings. As advertised. It was smaller than Gary had expected, barely shin height, and it was two days earlier than the promised delivery date. “You gonna sign for it?” Gary closed his...
