by Ira | Nov 23, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Ira is ded. D-E-D. Ded. He wrote all the words, there are none left. 8,000 of them today, which is a new person record. It wasn’t quite enough, I’m afraid. There are still two major sequences left to write…but I can feel in my gut that these...
by Ira | Nov 22, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
I don’t know how I did it, but I did it: my elbow hurts. Maybe from so much writing? I did spend a bunch of time in my computer chair today, perhaps that’s it. I don’t know…but shit…welcome to my 30s, I guess. Blech. I have to make the...
by Ira | Nov 20, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
I just had a nighttime writing sesh, and it was *lit*. I might have to work writing at night into my schedule guys…or perhaps stretching out these sessions so they’re not all at once all the time. I wrote most of Starstuff at night. It’s...
by Ira | Nov 19, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
This second novel is so much to get ahold of sometimes. I think that’s why this particular rough draft has been so…”rough.” It’s been so much to wrap my head around, it’s hard to handle as a whole, and so I’ve just started...
by Ira | Nov 18, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
I wrote today. Not as much as I wanted, but I did write 500 words. My minimum. Tomorrow, it will be closer to 1,000…which means I *will* hit my stated goal of 90,000 words by Sunday. So, after all that angst and hand-wringing…here I am, right where I want...
by Ira | Nov 17, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Today was a bit helter-skelter…but it was a great day. It started with a little extra sleep – I was pretty wiped from a week of a “new” schedule with new expectations (read: I will write every day). But the day then REALLY began when I pounced...
