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October 31, 2019
Day 2,192: Hope over hopelessness
I think I may have nailed the central conflict between hero and villain in my book series.
Finally.
The villain has been so obscured to me thus far. I realized that I needed to wrap my brain around who he is, what he wants, what he represents and why. Particularly why.
I think I figured out some shit today. Something that really drove deep for me, personally.
Today was a good day. FINALLY! I’m figuring stuff out. And…I think for the first time ever ever evereverever…I wrote every single day for an entire month. And I’m no...
October 30, 2019
Day 2,191: Cracking Up
Liz is cracking up in bed next to me right now. She’s texting with someone. She hasn’t told me yet what she’s laughing about. If it’s repeatable, I’ll tell you what it is.
She’s texting with Chris. That’s what I know right now. She’s still giggling. It’s making the bed shake. I saw a picture of a dog covered in an orca costume. No idea if that’s the same thread as what’s making her laugh, though.
We’ll return once more information has come to light.
I am exhausted tonight.
I had a better day today. Particularly afte...
October 29, 2019
Day 2,190: Six Years
holy shit…it’s been six years.
This anniversary post snuck up on my this year. I can’t remember if it did last year, too, but it did this year.
Today was a day like most others. I got in my writing. I’m stressing about it right now because it’s good…but it’s not quite right. The WRITING is good…I definitely feel dropped in. But I’m worried it’s not quiiiiite paying off the way I want it to. Which is hard, because I haven’t really figured out yet what I’m paying off, so I’m not going for it hard yet.
I think...
October 28, 2019
Day 2,189: TIP
Liz is watching the hip hop Netflix show right now in bed, and it’s really interesting. I totally get why they made it. They’re even going on the road for auditions.
I had…an off day today. Just in the sense that I felt anxious for much of the day. But, I still wrote. I like what I wrote. Like it a lot actually, at least the prose. The prose really felt like it was flowing. I worry that I’m not moving things along at fast enough a pace…but that’s hard to tell whilst writing. And I can always decide to...
October 27, 2019
Day 2,188: Busy Sunday
Man…my day was busy today.
No nap. But, I don’t feel exhausted. I got a lot of stuff done today that I wanted to and needed to get done…and that makes me feel good. We’ll see if I feel it tomorrow.
Niners destroyed the Panthers today. I’ve said it a few times, but this game truly, truly showed me just how good the Niners are. They’re legit. I don’t honestly know if they’re elite yet, since they have yet to play an elite, truly dangerous team, like the Chiefs (with Mahomes), or the Saints or the Patriots…but we’r...
October 26, 2019
Day 2,187: Up and Down
It’s been an up and down week. Today was an up and down day. Anxiety-wise, that is.
It’s stupid, but it made me anxious to make Coco boiled ground beef and rice, just because I’d never done it before. And it made me anxious to take her in to get groomed. But…I did those things, and then I had a pretty nice evening with the pups.
I watched Space Cowboys. It was on my list as a prototype story for the old fogies military SciFi series I’ve been kicking about. I actually broke it down into sequences as I...
October 25, 2019
Day 2,186: A Break in the Clouds
You never know when breakthroughs are going to happen.
It can be anything that sets them off. Any little thing. Or big thing. And then a moment of clarity.
Ah. It’s the freaking best feeling.
I had one of those moments today with my story. And perfect timing, since I’m just about to write a pivotal, very important scene that wouldn’t have made nearly as much sense or had nearly as much impact had I not had the clarity come to me today. It’s damn perfect timing, actually. Maybe it makes a lot of sense I had the clar...
October 24, 2019
Day 2,185: Dubs Drubbed
Dubs got steamrolled tonight by, arguably, the early-season lock in the West for the Finals this year.
It was an ugly loss on the offensive side. They gave up 46 in the 3rd quarter. They scored 122 points on the night, which is encouraging, but that defense. Yiiiikes. It’s the price they’re paying to have re-upped with Kevin Durant for three seasons. Worth it, though. Two titles in three years? Fuck yes. But, there’s always a price to be paid, eventually. Dubs are paying it now.
They might not make th...
October 23, 2019
Day 2,184: Near Zero
I realized today looking at my number of posts that I must have repeated a number within the past month or so. Last night’s blog entry was numbered #2,182…but really, it should have been #2,183.
I just went at looked, and it was the weekend of J and Mike’s wedding. In fact, I’m pretty sure the mis-numbered happened the actual day of their wedding…so, I was distracted for obvious reasons
October 22, 2019
Day 2,182: Still Cray
Still feeling totes out of my routine…but handling it.
Today was more low key on the work front, which was nice. Had a great writing sesh to start the day, did work, and then finished just early enough to head over and do podcasting a little earlier than usual…which was GREAT.
I was home by 10, which means I’m going to bed right now only slightly later than usual. THAT right there may be the key to podcasting during the week when absolutely necessary. It doesn’t wipe me out so much.
Casting was great. We h...
