by Ira | Jan 14, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Coco is all bundled up in between Liz and I right now. We just had to clamp her down to give her eye drops. Oh, how she fights those every night. She’s such a stubborn dog. She really is. Coopey is a pushover compared to Coco. That’s my girl. Writing was...
by Ira | Jan 13, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Quick one because it’s sleepy time: -writing was great today, feels like I’m back in a rhythm -work was great, too; staying ahead of my projects like a boss -hanging with bear at home was even greater; we started watching The Witcher. It’s...
by Ira | Jan 12, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
I have a favorite writing song. If you want to know what writing feels like for me, the days when the writing is good, listen to “The Gravel Road” by James Newton Howard. That’s what it feels like. Exactly. It’s from the film The Village, which...
by Ira | Jan 11, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
I love building relationships in my stories. I love taking two people who don’t like each other, two people who push each other’s buttons, and having them find common ground, respect, and maybe even start to get along. Love that shit. I like writing the...
by Ira | Jan 10, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
This was a rough week. Not emotionally. Nothing like that. I just mean…it wasn’t smooth. It was rough in the sense that I was jumping back into my routine after not having been in that routine for a while, and it was all over the place. I had a good...
by Ira | Jan 9, 2020 | Challenge, Journal
Today was rough for a very simple reason: Coco woke me up at 2:30 in the morning because she wasn’t feeling well. Poo explosion. Vomit, too. Poor baby. And THEN I couldn’t get back to sleep. I tossed and turned for what turned out to be almost three hours,...
