by Ira | Jan 30, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Thumbing it again tonight and wiped…but it was a good week this week. Found my rhythm writing again, which just feels…wonderful. Like relief. I even had some time to work on ads today. Get those going again. Finished my Shakespeare reading. Got to spend time with Bear...
by Ira | Jan 29, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Yall it is SO MUCH WORK, this outlining process, but it so very very satisfying to see a character or a scene start to come to life. The sketch is always fun, the rough shape…but this detailed outline (and then, obviously, writing the scene) is when I actually start...
by Ira | Jan 28, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Day started out like gangbusters today. I figured out how many scenes I need to aim for with each session. I think I was writing about it last night, but my outlining process is finally, finally starting to alllll make sense to me. I can see my necessary steps, now....
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.
