You ever wake up grumpy? No reason, just foul? I freaking almost never do that. I'm a happy waker. Or, at the very least, I'm a tired zombie waker. Not today. I woke up grumpy. Stayed that way, just feeling in a funk, till around lunch time...and then some time in the...

I wrote all three sessions today. That's a win. The writing wasn't great. I'm on a sequence of scenes that clearly need to be fixed. They're not working. They're not ringing true. There's an emotional truth that's not being observed. So...I'm working and reworking...

It's different this time around, the writing. I can feel a bullshit scene right now. I can sniff it much better and clearer than I used to...this most recent scene that stuck me in the mud--which came at the worst possible time, too, since it was in the midst of all...