by Ira | Mar 22, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Super late because we podcasted late today—we spent two solid hours going through each and every Hitchcock film we’d watched just to make sure we remembered what happened in each one of them—…but it was a good night. We watched The Game. Apparently a decent number of...
by Ira | Mar 20, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Another day of scenes not death! Not quite as far as I intended to go, but that doesn’t matter. Not in the slightest. The whole point of the eight scenes or death was simply to get into the groove…and I have. Whew. I’m, like, a week away from finishing this outline....
by Ira | Mar 19, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
It wasn’t death today; it was eight scenes. Woohoo! Today was the writing day I’ve known for quite some time that I could hit, but just struggled so much to do so for some reason. It started with getting up on time, for sure. I was two thirds of the way through my...
by Ira | Mar 18, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
I died again today. I didn’t finish eight scenes…but I did get started. And that’s something. Eight scenes tomorrow or DEATH. I choose eight scenes.
by Ira | Mar 17, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
I made a deal with myself today: eight scenes or death. Well…I died. Zero scenes, in fact. I got derailed early and never recovered. Sigh. Not tomorrow, however. Tomorrow…it’s eight scenes. I will live! Close with this outline. Need to push, and finding that hard. But...
by Ira | Mar 16, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
A pretty lazy Sunday, thank dog. Did the laundry. Took a nap. Did the finances and whatnot…but otherwise, I have a hard time accounting for all the hours in the day, lol. We watched Heretic together. It was…messy. And not particularly tense or scary, which is a shame...
