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Day 2,217: Young Blood

Blech. Hectic day today at work. Nothing crazy, but it did hijack both of my writing sessions, morning and afternoon. Luckily, I just wrote almost 500 words just now. Good words. Easy words.

Hoping that continues tomorrow before I send my pages off to J.

Sigh.

I wish I’d known how much panic lay behind my drive to succeed. I’d have made an effort to sit with those feelings a long time ago. I just didn’t know.

Now I do.

I want to go get some reading done.

Today was a good day. Don’t get it...

Day 2,216: Self Care

This weekend was a self care weekend.

I feel so much more myself.

I built a table for my model crafting. I watched the Niners beat down the Packers. We went and got Christmas photos with the pups. I took a nice long nap. Therapy was intense, but helped put some things in perspective, which takes a little bit of a load off. I got the podcast (pretty much) set up for the next two weeks; at least tomorrow is ready to go, the rest is almost ready.

It was a good weekend.

I took a break from...

Day 2,215: Biology

Therapy was intense today.

I talked about my biological father, a man I’ve never met. It’s…a very uncomfortable subject, I’m realizing. Something that I’ve really avoided thinking about or talking about most of my life. And I think it’s affecting my writing. There are a lot of parallels and similarities to what my main character is going through in this second book and, well, aspects of my own life. Definitely not the same, but shades of it for sure.

Anyway…it honestly makes me really...

Day 2,214: Struggle

Coco struggles against getting her eye drops every night. Every. Night.

I looked up some videos, and it looks like there’s a better way. She still struggles against it, but I wonder if I can work on conditioning her with treats to not be so afraid of the way I’d need to hold her. She’s so stubborn. Waaaaay more stubborn and willful than Coops.

I had a good writing sesh this morning. All caught up at work. Got to come home a little bit early. Watched basketball. Figured out how to process the...

2,213: Zonked

Late entry bc of casting.

We watched Sullivan’s Travels tonight, which was a film I knew absolutely nothing about. Which was exciting. The film…not so much. But more on that when the episode drops

Day 2,212: A Quick

Maaannn…

Been freaking exhausted all day. All day today.

BUT…sometimes those are the best work days. I wrote a good scene this morning. It was pure, true, vivid. A keeper.

Working on getting there with the current scene. It’s such a process with this book. So not obvious. But…man…I’m making progress. I really am.

Time for sleeps. Niiiiiiiight

Day 2,211: That Hard Sleep

Coco sleeps that hard sleep now. The old sleep, where it takes a second to wake her up. She doesn’t hear me immediately, or smell me. I wake her gently, with a rub or two, and she’s woozy for a second, and then she’s up like she’s always up. But, the sleep is harder now.

I was reading an older entry of this blog around spring of last year, the ‘early’ days of the struggle bus with this second book, and I was talking about having a breakthrough in the story. Which I’m sure it was. But, it wasn’t the...

Day 2,210: That Feeling When…

That feeling when you recorded a podcast episode, and then through a series of really stupid decisions, lost the recorded audio for that podcast.

I could have saved the situation. I think that, specifically, is why this one is so hard to let go of. I could have saved the recording. But I didn’t.

Uuuuuuggghhhhh.

Anyway. I have to let it go. It’s gone now. I think. I do have this one temp file that’s the right file size, but I can’t figure out how to extract audio from it, and it’s disturbingly only ONE file when really I think...

Day 2,210: That Feeling When…

That feeling when you recorded a podcast episode, and then through a series of really stupid decisions, lost the recorded audio for that podcast.

I could have saved the situation. I think that, specifically, is why this one is so hard to let go of. I could have saved the recording. But I didn’t.

Uuuuuuggghhhhh.

Anyway. I have to let it go. It’s gone now. I think. I do have this one temp file that’s the right file size, but I can’t figure out how to extract audio from it, and it’s disturbingly...

Day 2,209:

It’s so good to be home.

I’m looking forward to work tomorrow. Looking forward to getting there on time (which means making a bit of a quick entry tonight), to meditating and writing, getting a full day of work in, then writing a bit more.

Josh and I should be podcasting tomorrow, I think. Hope so. We’ll be watching American Graffiti. Looking forward to it. Interested to see why it’s on the list.

Guys…Watchmen is so FREAKING good. Seriously. It’s soooo goooood. So impressed with the writing, and how they keep ratcheting things u...Guys…