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Day 4,174: Back From The Dead

So…I have an apple pencil. I bought it with this iPad Pro, but I hardly ever have any use for it. I use it to fill out worksheets when I was doing that for my writing, I used it very briefly to color—someday I’d like to get back into that—and I’ve used it to sketch out stuff for my books. Well, I needed to do the latter today…but I haven’t done that since the pandemic, probably. Five years. I knew my pencil would be dead. No matter, right? Just charge it. WRONG.

I clicked it on, charged it ov...

Day 4,173: No Quit

Le sigh. I really really wanted to finish my outline today. I even started work early because there was stuff that had to be done asap today, trying to clear myself some time at the latter half of the day…but it was not to be. Work was legit insane aaaallllll day. No writing was done. I will miss my 3/31 deadline.

But that’s okay. I’m close enough. Tomorrow. Let’s get it tomorrow.

Night night.

Day 4,172: Seester

My oh my what a busy week, and a busy weekend. BUT…I am literally a day or two away from finishing my outline. If I can manage to get all my Netflix work done in time tomorrow, maybe I’ll finish right when I wanted to: March 31st. No matter if it’s the following day either, or beyond…this will by by far the earliest I have ever finished an outline for one of my books, and that’s very, very exciting. To start writing the actual book when the skies outside are still wet, the hills green, and the c...

Day 4,171: Ma’am

Joy is trying so hard to play with me right now, she just tromped all over my keyboard. Toy in her mouth. Growling. I told her no, so she just dove in under the covers, curled up, and snorted. Good god I love her so much.

Coops has a little bit of eye irritation. We took him to the doc today to look at it and the good news was that there’s no new injury. So that’s good. But it was super duper dry, so we’re upping the eye lubes to several times a day rather than only before bed. Hope that help...

Day 4,170: Nose for Atu

We’re home from seeing Swimming Paul over in Hollywood. He PACKED the place. Packed. Everyone singing along. He played all the hits plus a lot more. It was dope. Really, really fun. Hot sweaty fun. Nothing like a packed club of happy people and great music to move to.

What a busy workweek though, man. Whew. I’m wiped. And still not quite done with this outline but oh I am SO close. I’ll start writing it very soon. A few more days. That will be so nice.

Wiped. Sleepy time. Night night.

Day 4,169: Sorry Son

Late! My goodness. Not too bad, but almost pillow time so we’ll make this a quick one.

Adolescence on Netflix. Watch. It. Heavy, but absolutely spectacular. Looking forward to all the awards it will win, and rightly so.

Writing today was solid again. I’m “behind” the schedule I set for myself, but only because it was an overly ambitious schedule. Fine line between pushing to get something done and rushing it, you know? I want the former, not the latter. And…I’m just in a good place. Gettin...

Day 4,168: Orange and Jasmine

The air is perfumed tonight with orange and jasmine blossoms. Cool, too, with low misty clouds and a tiny little breeze. Which is to say: it is gorgeous out there. I wish I could spend more time outside. It is hands-down my favorite month to live in LA, with April being a close second. It’s just so pretty.

I worked like eleven hours today. Sigh. But, I got shit done. And hopefully set myself up for a nice writing day tomorrow. I had a great sesh this morning, but work took over in the evening...

Day 4,167: NoNap

How often do I say no to things that would interfere with my goals?

This question makes me think of the advice “you have to learn to say no.” Early on, that never made sense to me. I say no to stuff all the time. I’ve never had a particularly hard time saying no. But what I didn’t realize is I wasn’t thinking of the stuff that piece of advice is really aimed at. I was thinking of being able to say no to stuff that I didn’t really want to do. But what the advice actually means is “you have to ...

Day 4,166: Herr Knock

It’s late! Almost time for sleeps. I did the thing tonight where I started reading with the intention of finishing something—the first act of Titus Andronicus oooweee does that one start out a little rough, eh?—and suddenly it was almost time to get ready for bed. I hadn’t even eaten yet.

I remember that so clearly as a kid—time disappearing like that while I read something. It is a joy. And what a beautiful evening it’s been, too, to accompany that.

I am wiped, though. Got my writing done...

Day 4,165: Here and There

What an odd day. I, man…outside of this morning, I kinda floated through the day. Which is weird! Because I got shit done. I got the writing done I needed to, and it was a massive sequence I had no idea really how I was going to get through it. Really disturbing sequence. Horrifying, really, and that definitely is part of the weird mood, I think. Depressing. But hopefully that’s good for the writing.

So, an odd day in that I got done what I wanted and needed to get done…but I am out of it. We...