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Day 3,198: A Vag of Honor

I’m back. The first end-to-end solid writing day I’ve had in two weeks. Which, to be fair, is WAY LESS time than it used to be. Used to go months without cranking out pages. The progress is staggering.

This book is fun. Fun fun FUN. I’m loving writing it, which is such a relief. SUCH a relief. I’m almost done with Act 1. Which is extra long because I take a detour…which might get snipped out in the end to be its own little thing if this book gets too long…but we’ll see. I’ll worry about that ...

Day 3,197: Fat Dick Spirit

Man…this show The Anarchists on HBO is fucking wwwiiilllldddd man. Holy shit things get real. Highly recommend. But also be prepared for some truly intense stuff to go down.

It’s late, so a fast one, but: work was solid. Writing was SOLID. I want to get more done tomorrow…we’ll see.

Night night!

Day 3,196: Straight Tuckered

K. I’m tuckered the eff out.

I always have a baller writing day whenever I get up on time, and today was no exception, but holy balls I do get tired. Living that life riiiight now.

I wrote the start to a new, fun relationship. I guess it’s an old relationship because I put the two of them together in the last book, but this second book takes them to new places. It was hard to write. But, fun. I can find it. I think. No…I know I can. It’ll just take work, and what I put down on paper today ...

Day 3,195: Showers

Might rain here tonight! It’s showering in the mountains, currently. We just gathered up everything outside that wouldn’t do well in the wet…I hope it does rain.

Tommen is gone. Sigh. Back home with his REAL family. He’s gotten so easy to take care of. He’s definitely used to us. He used to freak out when they would leave. Shake. Whine. Need to be held. He doesn’t do aaannyyyy of that anymore. Nice and calm the whole way through. Sweet boy.

I did self-care today. I went out to my wine spot...

Day 3,194: Movies!

I saw a movie in a theater. For the first time since spring of 2020. That’s…crazy. More crazy how long it’s been than going to see one.

The occasion? Our friend Kiel Murray wrote a movie called Luck, and it was goddamn adorable. Apple TV+ next week. So freaking PROUD OF HER. And it was the legit premier. All the actors, producers and directors there. Rented out a whole theater and then a parking lot across the street for like a carnival of games and food and drink…all at 11am on a Saturday, b...

Day 3,193: Snuggd

It’s late, so I’ll make this a quick one…

Hard day. Not for any particular reason beyond I still didn’t write a single page. Sigh. I’m getting there though, you guys. The ten days…I think I’m going to do 14. 140 pages in two weeks to get me back into the flow. Sigh.

I’m getting there.

BUT…but but but: ended the day on a high note. Moved my body. Did great with work. It was a solid week in that regard.

Just need to write my damn pages. Uuuuuggghh.

Night night.

Day 3,192: Sore neck!

Le sigh. Neck is sore. It means I’m stressed out, and it’s pretty easy for me to figure out why: I’ve let resistance get the best of me the past week or so. Pretty much ever since we had house guests not last weekend, but the weekend previous.

Nothing they did! At all! In fact, quite the opposite: it was so wonderful to have them, it (rightly so) threw me off my game. Le sigh.

I will recover. I want it to happen tomorrow, but first: I just need to get some rest and calm the fuck down. I ge...

Day 3,191: Jack the Rapper

Late! Making a quick entry tonight because we had a lovely evening with Kerry, who’s back in town staying with us again awwww yisss, and her good friends David and Alice. They were so cool. Had a blast. We went to All Day Baby. The pie. Good lord.

Gonna sleep. Tomorrow is Day 1 of ten days straight of ten pages. LET’S DO THIS.

Day 3,190: Run Aground

I’ve run aground a bit with the writing. Sigh.

It was work. And a couple other stressors. Took the wind from my sails. But, y’all, that’s okay. I’m already thinking about how I can adjust, and here’s the idea: 10 days. 100 pages. A significant amount of work, but still so bit-sized that I know I can do it. So, that’s the next challenge. I might take tomorrow off of writing, actually, just for a breather…but then again, I might not. We’ll see.

It’s always a struggle to find consistency…but ...

Day 3,189: A Step

Today was a bit rough to start out. Exhausted all day. Had a rather large amount of work to do for ze Flix. I didn’t get up in time to write in the morning, and that usually means I don’t write at all. That proved to be true. I was ready for a nap by lunch, but I couldn’t; too much work to finish. My computer is on the fritz, I had to swap in my laptop mid-day.

And then…

And then the computer swap worked. I finished work. I was able to take a nap; late, but I got it in. And I woke up, got ...