by Ira | Apr 20, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Quick entry today! The Ho and I had a long day of driving around LA today doing errands 😛 I checked A LOT of things off my list that I’d been putting off, and I’m glad I did. And doing errands is always so much more fun with Liz to do them with. We had...
by Ira | Apr 19, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Finally…a solid writing day. I wrote 1,500 *excellent* words today. This scene, this particular mechanism in my story, is *poppin*. I’m interested in it. It finally makes SENSE, and I’m digging it. It’s an asset to the story now. I realized...
by Ira | Apr 18, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Breakthrough! Oh, Lordy…I finally had a good breakthrough day today. Finally! Finally. I had a one-on-one about a month ago with an author far more advanced than I, and one of my takeaways from that conversation was that there should be a separation between...
by Ira | Apr 17, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
So, the book has run aground these past two days, which is so, soooo frustrating…but there is a difference, folks. There truly is…I’m putting in the time. I really am. I did a lot of free-writing today, trying to wrap my brain around why I was...
by Ira | Apr 16, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
I spent all of my time, almost, brainstorming today for a set of scenes that are just not quite working yet. They’re still fuzzy, and fuzzy translates as LAZY on the page. I *did* put in my time, however, and I wrote 250 actual new words once the opening to the...
by Ira | Apr 15, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Do you remember the Star Wars boxed set of VHS tapes? The ones we grew up watching, with all the frayed edges of the cardboard, and the making-of documentary that would play before the first movie (I think?). Those were the movies of my childhood. For my family,...
