Ira Heinichen's Blog, page 11

Day 4,299: Joy Love Bug

Wrote a bunch of pages today! 14, I think. Almost through this final big set piece. Super, super exciting to see it all come together. Twists. Shockers. People are changed. Life and death. Act 3 shit! Banger of a book, I think. I hope so, anyway. My co-writer seems to think so. Whew!

I’m ready to be done, for sure. Excited to be done. It’s always exhilarating to finish a book. No matter how anguishing it was to outline or write it…always a blast to cross the finish line.

Three more Glory b...

Day 4,298: Joy Loves Bugs

Did you know cockroaches can fly? Neither did I! Just saw one do it. Tis the season in LA, I guess. They’re out there. Not too many of them, one here, one there, but they are out there. I feel like LA has roaches, but in very reasonable quantities. I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than one or two of them at a time. But, then again, maybe that’s just privilege showing? But…then again…I spent many years in LA very very poor living in some pretty, um, let’s just call them “old” apartments. So, I t...

Day 4,297: Le Quick

It’s bed time! Rapid fire one tonight.

Watched the Hungarian Grand Prix. Exciting race! But not for Lewis.

Hung out with Wolfie. We played corn hole and Spirit Farer after. Christina had COVID, so we did everything outside and I wore a mask when I was close to Wolfie. We had a great time.

Took a short nap. Wanted longer, but brain wouldn’t comply.

Helped Bear with audition.

We watched Grand Designs. A messy, stressful one. But they finished their house.

Now…sleep.

Day 4,296: Ermlert

Had a wonderful hang this evening with some friends. We sat out on the patio and watched Snacks and Joy run around together, ate sugar melon, all after a jaunt down the street for Leo’s Tacos which…my god…they were spectacular. I love the taco spots within walking distance of us, but this shit was next level. Worth the very short drive. The good company, of course, made it all even better.

I wrote this morning like I wanted to. I’ll do it again tomorrow morning…and then this coming week it’s ...

Day 4,295: Flat

Twas a week of burnout, I’m afraid. Inevitable. It wasn’t from lack of trying. I grinded. Still came up short. It’s okay. It happens. Especially because I’m so close to finishing. I’ll get up tomorrow and Sunday and write more pages…but the final push is now next week.

I got this.

The book will get done.

I think that’s all I got for you tonight. Cheers.

Day 4,294: So Fit

Wrote a really intense scene today. Took it out of me. The most intense scene I’ve ever written, to be honest. The most horrifying. The most heartbreaking. I…didn’t expect it to be so intense. At least to write. I knew it would be pretty gut-wrenching from a storytelling point of view, but it was the same to write it, for sure.

I just went and added a bit to my notes. A scene I hadn’t envisioned until just now, but one that’s absolutely necessary. Drake being a good leader.

Anyway. It’s ti...

Day 4,293: Bespoke

Watching a Grand Designs right now about a family (a dad) building their own house with no money and it’s taking ages…and I remember this house. I believe it doesn’t get done in time for the first episode so they come back to it later…and I might be conflating it with a different house, but I’m pretty sure it’s not even finished in that later episode and all the children have grown up and moved away. We’ll see. Almost done with it.

That happens sometimes. It happened, more or less, with my fa...

Day 4,292: Golden

A non-starter day. Blech. Didn’t have the focus. But I will tomorrow. The full day. That’s all I have to say about that.

I started Portrait of a Lady on Fire and it is already fantastic. Moving. Doesn’t explain itself but crystal fucking clear. The *sound* is spectacular. The location is incredible. Script is sparse but precise, like a knife; cuts right to it. The leads are beautiful. The adventure is so clear and so fun—she must paint the portrait of a woman who doesn’t want to be painted (…...

Day 4,291: Lifeboat

We watched a really cool episode of Grand Designs tonight that was about a lifeboat house—one of those ones built right on the beach with the launch ramp attached so the boat can be deployed at any time, like, from the Coast Guard—that this older couple was converting into a house. Didn’t agree with all their choices, and I don’t think I’d ever choose to live literally out on top of the water like that…but it was really well done. So ambitious. And the building itself was just over 100 years old...

Day 4,290: MCR

The My Chemical Romance show is pretty spectacular. Might be the most impressive concert I’ve ever been to, at least in terms of storytelling and theatricality. I was really, really impressed. And their music is also just so good for live performance. Very glad we went!

I got my writing done today. Whew. I’m at 420 pages. Probably another…50? 60? Something like that. We’re to the point where all the shit is going down. Final showdown. Full beans. So close to being done. And this is right arou...