by Ira | Oct 4, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
The manuscript is off to the beta readers. My co-writer doesn’t call them that, exactly, but they’re similar; a team of readers who go through each of the books he’s published to make sure everything makes sense, catch any straggling typos, give the thumbs up on...
by Ira | Oct 3, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Making it a quick one tonight because it’s late, but I podcasted with Josh! We hadn’t hung out in a few weeks because of travel and busy-ness. We watched Ghostbusters, and it holds up! Rick Moranis, in particular, is an absolute delight. Writing: good. Still work to...
by Ira | Oct 2, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
It was a hot one today. This heatwave isn’t quite as bad as the last one, though. We’re triple digits, but just barely, as opposed to the two weeks in earlier that were pushing 112 on some days. That makes quite the difference for our AC, which literally couldn’t keep...
by Ira | Oct 1, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Another good day! I got stuff done. Not a ton—I want to actually push a little harder tomorrow—but I got what I needed to get done, done. The book is back from the editor. I’ll need to get through that tomorrow. I finished my Author Note. I watched Wrexham get beat...
by Ira | Sep 30, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Contented sigh. Today was a good day. Whew! Not to say the days haven’t been good lately. The opposite: they’ve been great. I guess I mean today was a good work day. I finally, FINALLY got some stuff done I’d tried to do last week and just failed miserably at. Did it...
by Ira | Sep 29, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
We picked up Grand Designs again. The last time we watched it, at least through our Channel 4 account, it was the day Coco died. We put it on after yoga while Coco was at the hospital to pass the time. We were waiting to get a phone call from the internist, to see how...
