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July 14, 2022
Day 3,178: Two Days Back
Well, blerg. I’m two days behind on the writing now. So, you know, maybe I *need* an extra day of leeway per week. That might be the lesson here and if it is, so be it. It’s not throwing me off my game, y’all. Still getting my ass up tomorrow and cranking out 10 pages.
I love my job. I really do.
Joe, Madhuri and Ashika are with us this weekend. It’s so good to see them.
Night night.
Day 3,177: Upstream
It is LATE.
Podcasted tonight with J. We have Ashika in town starting tomorrow night, and podcasting with her in the house wasn’t gonna fly…so we met tonight. Watched Upstream Color. It’s the sophomore film from the guy who did Primer. Not quite the classic Primer was, but I still enjoyed it immensely.
Got some HUGE news from my bro. Great news. I’m so excited.
Work was good. Busy. Got my shit done though. I think I might have even figured out how to stop a leak without calling a plumbe...
July 12, 2022
Day 3,176: Of The King
Man. We watched Sphere tonight, the movie based on the Michael Crichton book…
It was so bad! Barry Levinson, what the fuck happened man?! SO bad. We loved it, though, in that way we love all horrible 90s movies. I remember one day we just watched Volcano, just because it was on. I’d never seen it. Can’t remember if Liz had…what a day.
I got my pages done. Got my work done. Bing bang boom.
More of the same tomorrow!
July 11, 2022
Day 3,175: Of Course He Did
Making it a short entry tonight, only because I want to go to sleep on time and get up on time tomorrow.
Busy day! Productive. Lost a little ground I had made up from writing extra yesterday, but that’s okay. I’m still within striking distance, and I’m SUPER HAPPY with what I’ve written. Like…stoked. It’s so fun.
Night night!
July 10, 2022
Day 3,174: Novelist
I’m wiiiiped. Not exactly what I love writing at 10:30 on a Sunday night, since I usually try to REcharge over the weekend. But, alas…here we are. And it’s great, actually. I got aaallllmost all my shit done today.
I just sent off 67 pages to my co-writer, all written this week from scratch. It’s probably the most productive week of my young writing career. And I am exhausted, but at the same time, you know what you guys? It wasn’t that big of a deal. I can do it again. I think. I mean, I’ll ...
July 9, 2022
Day 3,173: No Time
Another late night. And it was another movie! This time, it was with bear…we watched the last Bond film. It was…fine. Not great. Definitely wanted to tug some heartstrings that it did not. And that’s always unfortunate. Fukunaga is another one of those directs who is VERY close to being amazing…but not quite there in the end. I loved Maniac overall, but it was just not quite all the way there. It could have had me in the palm of its hand, but it didn’t quite know how to pull all the strings.
...July 8, 2022
Day 3,172: Nuts
We watched The Lighthouse tonight for the podcast. It was CRAZY. I loved it. Not perfect, for sure, but it promised crazy and it delivered fucking crazy, man. Well done. That’s all I ask for.
Next week we’re watching The Thing. Josh knows nothing about it. I can’t WAIT. Classic.
Busy day. Busy week. I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow. Night night 🙂
July 7, 2022
Day 3,171: Not Quite
Okay. Four days in. That’s how many it took for Ira to not quiiiitteee reach his page count. But you know what that sound is?
…nothing.
It’s quiet as a church mouse right now, because I ain’t sweating it. That metaphor/sentence has so much wrong with it, but whatever man! Seriously…I’ll make it up. Probably over the weekend, but I will. Hopefully tomorrow. We’ll see. Work will have to cooperate.
I’m at 37 pages. So…three pages short today. It was just one of those days. I’ll have more o...
July 6, 2022
Day 3,170: She Ready
Day 3 of the writestravaganza. Thirty pages in. Things are going well. They should, because openings are rather easy.
You know…I’m not concerned about it at all, actually. Lol. Genuinely. I figured out most of the potholes in my outline. I’ve done this a few times, now. I know that—for the most part—I’m set up really well to just crank through this story.
That isn’t to say stuff won’t come up. It definitely will. It’ll test me, for sure. Every single book has. But…I got through it for thos...
July 5, 2022
Day 3,169: Day Two
Twenty pages done. Feeling like a rock star.
Here’s the thing: it’s going to get harder. Probably several times. I’ll hit a part of the story I thought I had figured out, but realize I didn’t, or what I have doesn’t actually work. And it’s going to get REALLY hard to write those days. But…I can handle that. I can even handle falling off the wagon, and needing to reset my days. And here’s the other thing: I don’t think I’ll actually need to do that, to be honest with you. It’s okay if it happe...
