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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...

Day 4,164: Daydream

I guess today was a recovery day. We watched F1. Lewis won the sprint race. It was so nice to see. He’s still got it. He just needs the right car. Not sure if he has it, but we’ll see. It’s still so early.

Watched Wrexham beat Stockport. Put us back up into second place, which is the automatic promotion spot. Big win. One-nil, which means it was a stressful, tight win, but a win nonetheless.

I didn’t watch the Warriors play, but they lost. It looked like a rough game. Frustrating loss. I s...

Day 4,163: Bangers

Super late because we podcasted late today—we spent two solid hours going through each and every Hitchcock film we’d watched just to make sure we remembered what happened in each one of them—…but it was a good night. We watched The Game. Apparently a decent number of people thought that movie was kinda silly when it first came out, but I dare say those people should watch that movie again. It SLAPS. And it was formative, it turns out, in my development as a storyteller and story-lover. That endi...

Day 4,162: Hurricane Popcorn

Another day of scenes not death! Not quite as far as I intended to go, but that doesn’t matter. Not in the slightest. The whole point of the eight scenes or death was simply to get into the groove…and I have. Whew. I’m, like, a week away from finishing this outline. Wild. WILD. It’ll be the earliest I’ve ever finished an outline. Can’t. Wait.

Work was a bit busy. But not too busy. The perfect busy. I got to watch the Warriors beat the Raptors. Curry got hurt—his tailbone I think—but not serio...

Day 4,161: The Groove

It wasn’t death today; it was eight scenes. Woohoo!

Today was the writing day I’ve known for quite some time that I could hit, but just struggled so much to do so for some reason. It started with getting up on time, for sure. I was two thirds of the way through my goal for the day by breakfast time. That’s huge for me. It’s the lynchpin…which is why resistance tries so hard to keep me in bed.

Netflix work was sporadic, which meant I was able to sneak a few minutes here and there to get mos...

Day 4,160: Five Thirty

I died again today. I didn’t finish eight scenes…but I did get started. And that’s something.

Eight scenes tomorrow or DEATH. I choose eight scenes.

Day 4,159: Deff

I made a deal with myself today: eight scenes or death. Well…I died. Zero scenes, in fact. I got derailed early and never recovered. Sigh. Not tomorrow, however. Tomorrow…it’s eight scenes. I will live!

Close with this outline. Need to push, and finding that hard. But again…it’s because I’m breaking a pattern. It’s extra hard. Makes me feel better to remember that. Just. Keep. Pushing.

The good news: the outline is good. Like, for real. It’s gooood. I can’t wait to write it. Still some stu...

Day 4,158: Shake It For Me

A pretty lazy Sunday, thank dog.

Did the laundry. Took a nap. Did the finances and whatnot…but otherwise, I have a hard time accounting for all the hours in the day, lol.

We watched Heretic together. It was…messy. And not particularly tense or scary, which is a shame because there was something there in that script, something in their themes, and they just never were able to actually get to it. Could have been great. As it is, it’s lost and watered down. Bummer. Still glad we watched it, t...

Day 4,157: Three AM

Late so we’re making this a quick one…

Slept in

Watched F1 Quali

Then watched Wrexham beat Wycombe! We’re in second place. Automatic promotion (if we can end the season there—long way to go)

Then took a shower.

Then went to Montana’s red egg party.

Then took a truly epic nap with the sliding doors open and the most beautiful weather my god I love March in LA

Then walked the pups

Then watched the Warriors beat the Knicks—we’re unstoppable lately my god

Then watched the ...

Day 4,156: Shiver

Cold today. Like, actually cold! Rain with temps in the 40s. Mid to low 40s even. But I was nice and toasty in my office 🙂

Podcasted. We finished Hitch tonight. We’ve now seen every single one of his feature films, save one, which has been lost. Nobody alive has seen that one. If they ever find a copy of it, we’ll watch it. But for now, all 53 of his available films have now been seen. Pretty crazy. An incredible career. And an incredible project.

Night night.