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Day 2,995: The Breaks

Decent day today. It was a little weird because I had to go over the hill into the office, which just makes the day feel off kilter…but I got my shit done today. Decent writing to start. Crushed the Netflix stuff. Great meetings with clients.

I don’t really have much more than that. Dubs lost a close one with the Grizz.

Looking forward to being pretty damn productive tomorrow. Night night.

Day 2,994: People vs. Characters

So much of my outlining and then the actual writing is figuring out personalities and relationships. Who are the PEOPLE in my stories? When I have a grip on that, oh man…the scenes start to come to life. But, it takes time. And a lot of thought.

I was just thinking about a relationship in my new book. A new one. With a new, very important character. It’s getting there.

What I realized, though, as I was thinking, was that I base a lot of my characters on other characters. I see them inside ...

Day 2,993: Ehsports

I once saw the word “esports” and read it as eh-sports, like it was a spanish word. Even knowing in the back of my head that deportes is the actual spanish word for “sports.” Only later did I realize that it means eSports…

But now I refer to sports as esports all the time, faux latin pronunciation and all.

Today was a a big day in esports.

Niners in a WILD wild wild game—easily one of the wildest wins I’ve seen in a very very long time—beat the Rams to secure a spot in the postseason. ...

Day 2,992: So Close!

I painted for *ten* *hours* today.

Managed to fuck up my left ankle a little bit. I was in an odd crouched position getting to a hard-to-reach part of this wall (because the room has stuff in it) and it totally irritated some of the tendons in my foot. Hopefully not too bad. We’ll see how it feels in the morning. I bet it’s going to be tender for a few days, but nothing major. I can walk on it just fine. Took some ibuprofen and if it still hurts pretty good tomorrow, I’ll ice and wrap it.

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Day 2,991: One Day At A Time

I wrote last night about rhythm. Hubris. Best to take things one day at a time when writing is involved.

Got up late today. I was pretty exhausted from the week, and stressed over just how much Netflix work I had on my plate. A losing combination on the writing-front.

BUT…that’s okay. I’m going to get it in tomorrow. And Sunday. A schedule with wiggle room is really clutch for me. I need the gaps. The edges and margins, so that I can use them when I need to. That’s definitely something I’v...

Day 2,990: Rhythm

Found a bit of rhythm to start the year with the writing. Thank god.

I really, really didn’t want to write this morning…but I did it anyway. And it wasn’t actually that hard. I knew where I’d left off. I knew what I wanted to tackle next. I just had to get my ass out of bed to do it. And once I did that? Easy.

Rhythm.

Had to work extra today on the old Netflix stuff. Hopefully I set myself up for success tomorrow, though. We’ll see.

That was my day, y’all. Writing and Netflix work. T...

Day 2,989: Wow

Wow. I am…really close to 3,000 consecutive days of writing a blog post/journal entry, whichever one you want to call it. That is CRAZY. I genuinely had no idea when I started this little project, or routine, back in 2013 that it would go this long or take me this far.

I was still an actor in 2013. We’d just moved into this apartment and started managing the building. I hadn’t even met Coco yet. I was really, really struggling with working from home, though I was just starting to figure that ...

Day 2,988: Yup

Another super productive day.

Got my ass out of bed. Wrote. Outline is going well. This first part of the story…might work best as a little interstitial novella? I don’t know. We’ll see how long it is when I write it. I can see it still working as the first act of the story, so long as I’m concise with it. Flashes of scenes rather than long and detailed. But…breaking it out into a novella is possible. I just worry that it’s necessary for later things in the novel to land properly…

We. Shal...

Day 2,987: All The Things

Today was one of those days I did all the things.

Workout? Check. Writing? Check. And it was a great writing session, too. Netflix work? Check. Nap? Check. And crucial. Painting work? Check. AND got to listen to the Warriors on the radio as they beat Miami. AND got to hang out with Liz and watch some Grand Designs. It was…a pretty perfect day.

Smashed.

Gonna sleep. Night night.

Day 2,986: Coco Kisses

Coco gives me kisses on my nose every chance she gets. If my face is at the level of her tongue, she’s licking my nose as hard as she possibly can.

She just has this “lick” energy at night sometimes. She has to get it out before she can go to sleep. It’s as close as she really ever comes to having the “zoomies.” Coops gets the zooms, but not Coco. She gets the lickums, or she gets the wiggles where she’s on her back wiggling back and forth. It’s not that Coco never runs. She runs around all t...