by Ira | May 4, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
I powered through today, man. Season 3 has been edited. Tomorrow, I tackle the last step, which is actually two steps, but I’m going to do both of them at once: snaggle out the live clips for the middle transition section along with selecting the sounbyte clips...
by Ira | May 3, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Today was the first day I sat down and dictated a chapter text. It’s for my novella set in the Starstuff universe…and I’m not entirely convinced what I dictated was any good…but, BUT…I can see falling in love with dictation. For reals....
by Ira | May 2, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Da Ho was birthed on this day, and the world rejoices. Or at least *I* rejoices. It was a different kind of birthday in the sense that we weren’t able to spend the day together until late afternoon because she was working. Working hard on her show, making people...
by Ira | May 1, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
The WGA is close to a strike yet again. Liz and I were here 10 years ago when the last strike happened. I remember working a weekday banquet at Maggiano’s, in fact, and it was a pre-strike WGA strategy session. It was closed-door, so I couldn’t really hear...
by Ira | Apr 30, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
April, you really deserve better than a quick one tonight to send you off because you were yet another rather major month in which things got DONE. I ended doing full-time contract work with Netflix, and I’m on the precipice of finishing the editing for both...
by Ira | Apr 29, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
I read an article today about how time travel backwards is actually possible…at least in the world of math. That means there are actual physics-based equations that show it’s possible, if you can get an object (or a British telephone booth) to travel...