by Ira | May 22, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Today was a good day. I wrote 2,000 words. I read for (over!) an hour. I did some bank-stuff work and had a conference call with our financial advisor. And then, because of all that, I got to watch sports ball in the night times. Of course, the sports ball was...
by Ira | May 21, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Tell your sister…you were right… The Ho and I watched the despecialized Return of the Jedi tonight. You know, as an adult now, it’s undoubtedly the weakest of the three…but man, it still works for me. I know so much of that viewpoint is...
by Ira | May 20, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Today was about Baseball, Brunch, and Basketball! Aka, the perfect Sunday 🙂 I don’t know exactly why, but I love morning baseball. Whenever the A’s take a trip east and they play a weekend series, I get at least a couple morning baseball games. It’s...
by Ira | May 19, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Every storyteller is offering a contract: they’re reaching out their hand, saying “come with me, I want to show you something.” They’re saying “trust me. Let me lead the way, follow me, and I *promise* I won’t let you down.” I...
by Ira | May 18, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Professional athletes have short memories. So much of their work involves failure, they have to be able to let go of what has happened, and move forward. As writers (or any other kind of artist, really), we need to have short memories, too. Beating ourselves up over...
by Ira | May 17, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
We watched Deadpool 2 tonight, and… …I shall SAVE my thoughts for the review 😛 Mwahahahaaa. Stay TUNED. Otherwise I had another one of those days where things kind of slipped away from me. I made some choices that kept me away from the writing...
