by Ira | Jan 27, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
A much, much better writing day today, thank goodness. The entire story has shape. I have to go in and fix some stuff I’d filled out, and then fill out the majority of the scenes, but the loose sketch is all the way there, as of today. Each scene needs a spark of...
by Ira | Jan 26, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Good lord. Joy was just giving me nighttime kisses (licking the h-e-double-hockey-sticks out of my face)…when I felt something in her ear hair. Felt like a matte, so I picked at it a little bit, then realized it was something in there, like a bramble or something. It...
by Ira | Jan 25, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Oh jeez. Already sleep time. We can make it quick tonight, though. Batting cages with Wolfie, plus BotW and Mario Odyssey. Weird Al in the car. Nap with the dogs. Laundry. Finished watching the BBC Richard II. Now…sleeeeep.
by Ira | Jan 24, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Richard II I have ended up liking a bit more than I expected I would. It suffers from not-enough-happens, I think…but there are moments of brilliance in it, and the character of Richard is very interesting. He’s contradictory, and intentionally so, because it happens...
by Ira | Jan 23, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
I stumbled this morning and didn’t quite get up on time…but I still got in my writing! Huzzah! A win and a loss, to be fair, but the bigger win in that is maybe even this time last year, I wouldn’t have done any writing after getting up late. I would have blown the...
by Ira | Jan 22, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Joy is alllll the way up on my lap, so we’re thumbing it tonight on the old iPhone. I do mean old, by the way. It’s far past time for a new phone. This is a…12? Yeah, pretty sure it’s a 12 Pro. Which means I’ll have had it for five years once the next phone drops this...
