by Ira | May 20, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Today was about Baseball, Brunch, and Basketball! Aka, the perfect Sunday 🙂 I don’t know exactly why, but I love morning baseball. Whenever the A’s take a trip east and they play a weekend series, I get at least a couple morning baseball games. It’s...
by Ira | May 19, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Every storyteller is offering a contract: they’re reaching out their hand, saying “come with me, I want to show you something.” They’re saying “trust me. Let me lead the way, follow me, and I *promise* I won’t let you down.” I...
by Ira | May 18, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Professional athletes have short memories. So much of their work involves failure, they have to be able to let go of what has happened, and move forward. As writers (or any other kind of artist, really), we need to have short memories, too. Beating ourselves up over...
by Ira | May 17, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
We watched Deadpool 2 tonight, and… …I shall SAVE my thoughts for the review 😛 Mwahahahaaa. Stay TUNED. Otherwise I had another one of those days where things kind of slipped away from me. I made some choices that kept me away from the writing...
by Ira | May 16, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Happiness isn’t what a lot of us think it is. A lot of us think that happiness is that feeling that comes when we eat incredible food, or right after we finish a really hard project and it turned out better than we hoped, or when we get to sleep in an extra half...
by Ira | May 15, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Ugh. Drama fo yo mama. We’re watching another building this week, and there were shenanigans over there that had to be attended to. Mussed up our evening! Luckily, I’d done alllllmost everything I needed to do today already. I wrote 2,000 words and only...