by Ira | Jul 8, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
We watched The Lighthouse tonight for the podcast. It was CRAZY. I loved it. Not perfect, for sure, but it promised crazy and it delivered fucking crazy, man. Well done. That’s all I ask for. Next week we’re watching The Thing. Josh knows nothing about it. I can’t...
by Ira | Jul 7, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Okay. Four days in. That’s how many it took for Ira to not quiiiitteee reach his page count. But you know what that sound is? …nothing. It’s quiet as a church mouse right now, because I ain’t sweating it. That metaphor/sentence has so much wrong with it, but whatever...
by Ira | Jul 6, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Day 3 of the writestravaganza. Thirty pages in. Things are going well. They should, because openings are rather easy. You know…I’m not concerned about it at all, actually. Lol. Genuinely. I figured out most of the potholes in my outline. I’ve done this a few times,...
by Ira | Jul 5, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Twenty pages done. Feeling like a rock star. Here’s the thing: it’s going to get harder. Probably several times. I’ll hit a part of the story I thought I had figured out, but realize I didn’t, or what I have doesn’t actually work. And it’s going to get REALLY hard to...
by Ira | Jul 4, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Ten pages. My new book is ten pages long, as of today. Right on the MONEY. Whew. And it wasn’t that hard, guys. I just did it. The power of an outline. A scene I outlined MONTHS ago…but it stuck in my head just as fresh as when I wrote it back then. It was living in...
by Ira | Jul 3, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Our neighborhood is going to be pretty exuberant with the fireworks, I think. I don’t know if they’ll necessarily be exploding on our street, but they will certainly be going off all around us. Luckily…Coops has been completely non-reactive thus far. Making sure he’s...
