Ira Heinichen's Blog, page 119

Day 3,223: Knock Harder

Exhausting day, but damn kids . . . I did some shit.

It was all about weeding the front yard today. Didn’t finish it. Kinda knew that I wouldn’t, but the kind of progress was made that will keep me going towards the finish line. “Finish line” being that we’re having family and friends over for a birthday/housewarming party in two weeks. I’ve got one more weekend to get all this into shape, and it’s going to come down to the WIRE.

But, I can do it.

Same with writing. Same with work. Just...

Day 3,222: Uncle Ira

Got to see an old friend today. We lost touch about ten years ago, at least “lost touch” in the actually seeing each other face to face and hanging out kind of “touch”…and so we did that today. We hung out.

Maggiano’s at the Grove is closing. That’s where we met each other and talked Trek and started hanging out. I met a lot of really cool people at that place. I really did. It was such a big restaurant, there was so much turnover; always fresh faces. New people to meet. Easy to find communit...

Day 3,221: Solaris

Watched Solaris with Josh tonight. I freaking love that film. So. Much. I think it might be the only movie that does the 2001 thing…and might do it even better. Literally, I think it’s the only film I can say that about. It’s really, really good stuff.

Neither film is perfect — both can be accurately criticized as being slow, or actually boring in parts…but once you accept the pace at which they’re deliberately unfolding, what’s left is something truly deep, affecting, and genuinely important...

Day 2,320: Yup

21 pages today. My pages are many-enough to drink legally in the state of California. Good job pages.

Busy, busy, busy day. I didn’t get nearly enough done, but I did get my pages in. And now it’s time for bed so I can do it again tomorrow.

The book is rocking y’all. Like, truly, really rocking. It’s good shit. I even had to change a bunch of stuff—small stuff, but the kind of small stuff that makes a huge difference, and I am SO HAPPY that I did.

Okay. Night night. See you kids tomorro...

Day 2,319: And Just Like That

And just like that, I’ve had myself a wonderful day of writing.

I do need to see if I can get in more words in the morning, for sure. That’s always huge to the rest of the day. I had to write some here in bed before doing the bloggity blog because I was a few pages short of my goal…but that was close enough, y’all. Here I am. I made it. 300 pages, INCLUDING some rearranging of scenes and cutting some stuff off in certain places.

I liked everything I wrote today. There was even a scene that...

Day 2,318: Singular Focus

I hit a wall today at the end of my writing that left me a few pages short of where I wanted to be. Sigh. It happens. Now that I think about it, it’s because the story is dragging a bit, and that hit me right as I was flagging energy-wise for the day. But! Close enough. More tomorrow, and gawdam, but I have a MASSIVE job ahead of me over the next two and a half weeks, but…

BUT

I can finish this book. Just need to write my outline, man. I can do it. Co-writer seems to be digging it, too.

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Day 2,317: Put Down The Ducky

Mixed bag today. Didn’t write NEARLY as much as I wanted to, but my day was super productive nonetheless. Netflix work was busy, but I got that stuff done. I *did* get writing done. We also went grocery shopping, I did weeding, and hung out with Liz a bit at the end of the day.

Need to have a great writing day tomorrow, though, night night.

Day 2,316: King of the Castle

NOT the productive day I thought today was going to be…blame that mostly on the wine drinking last night which lead to wine sleeping…but you know what? That’s fine. I needed a more chill day. Like, REALLY needed it. And so I took it. And I have no regrets.

Tomorrow is going to be a super productive day. I can feel it.

Tommen is back home. Miss him. Pups are great. I finished watching the swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It’s SO. GOOD. Like, I was blown away. Love it. Too...

Day 2,315: Winoze

Liz and I went out on a little date night tonight. There’s a win bar in Sherman Oaks called “Augustine” and we went there, had dinner and tried some wines. It was DELIGHTFUL. I can’t stop thinking about the rioja I had. Holy shit, it was velvety as fuuuuuck. Riesling I had was pretty good…and the dessert wine we had was a gen-u-ine 26 year old Sauternes that we ate with a baked apple dessert. GAWDAM.

Got my writing done first thing. Therapy was great. Got my hair cut. Ran some errands to retu...

Day 6,409: Winoze

Liz and I went out on a little date night tonight. There’s a win bar in Sherman Oaks called “Augustine” and we went there, had dinner and tried some wines. It was DELIGHTFUL. I can’t stop thinking about the rioja I had. Holy shit, it was velvety as fuuuuuck. Riesling I had was pretty good…and the dessert wine we had was a gen-u-ine 26 year old Sauternes that we ate with a baked apple dessert. GAWDAM.

Got my writing done first thing. Therapy was great. Got my hair cut. Ran some errands to retu...