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Day 2,132: Kitbash

Doing a quick one tonight so I don’t get up so late tomorrow on my extra off-day…but today was a nice one. Not so crazy as yesterday with all the running around.

Got to hang with Reed and his peeps over at his house for the first time. So nice! Loooove their place. Did podcast editing a posting. Napped. Watched baseball (we lost, sad face).

Twas a good day.

Night!

Day 2,131: That Time Cooper Ate A Cockroach

Cooper ate a cockroach tonight.

We were outside letting them do their final pee business before bed, and the bugs were out. Crickets and cockroaches. And all the sudden, Cooper had his head bent down towards the sidewalk and he was crunching on something in his mouth. Like, actually crunching.

Cooper!

Day 2,130: Reward…

I’ve decided that I need to reward myself whenever I complete a week solid of writing every day.

As much as it’s worked for me in the past, and as much as I preach it to others, during this difficult stretch of writing, I’ve really struggled to reward myself on a consistent basis for completing goals or tasks, or for staying consistent.

It’s really consistency that I’m striving for. Completion is a result. It’s not a process.

I’ve thought about blu-rays, but I’m not sure that’s it. I’ve thoug...

Day 2,128: Reward…

I’ve decided that I need to reward myself whenever I complete a week solid of writing every day.

As much as it’s worked for me in the past, and as much as I preach it to others, during this difficult stretch of writing, I’ve really struggled to reward myself on a consistent basis for completing goals or tasks, or for staying consistent.

It’s really consistency that I’m striving for. Completion is a result. It’s not a process.

I’ve thought about blu-rays, but I’m not sure that’s it. I’ve thoug...

Day 2,129: Long Dayaaaze

It’s late. Hour past bed time, which has been the theme of this week. But for good reason!

Josh and I got in two podcasts this week, which made up for missing one a couple weeks ago. We’re back to three weeks ahead of our release schedule, which I think we’re going to NEED, tbh. Next month is so crazy for me.

I have some audio editing to do, which I hope to have some time for tomorrow. We’ll see how my work day goes.

I was scatter-brained a bit today. I left my fob in my car this morning, whi...

Day 2,128: Ask for help

I did a core questions breakdown today of all the scenes that I wrote and added over the course of the last week since I met with J.

I had anxiety going into it. I was afraid that I would hate my writing, or that it was all going to be unclear and foggy and just feel distant, which is what I’ve felt whilst reading and editing my work for so long now.

It didn’t.

It was

Day 2,127: Ask for help

I did a core questions breakdown today of all the scenes that I wrote and added over the course of the last week since I met with J.

I had anxiety going into it. I was afraid that I would hate my writing, or that it was all going to be unclear and foggy and just feel distant, which is what I’ve felt whilst reading and editing my work for so long now.

It didn’t.

It was

Day 2,127: Breaking Through

It’s so late that I can’t really talk about this as much as I really want to, but I have had a breakthrough in my writing. A huge one.

I’m enjoying it again. It’s easy again.

And this time for real.

I was able to crank out a lot of words over the past couple years. I would sit down and write and shove the words onto the page and hit my word Count goals…

and I hated everything I wrote. I felt so detached from what I was writing, and I convinced myself that I had a process, and the my process w...

Day 2,126: Breaking Through

It’s so late that I can’t really talk about this as much as I really want to, but I have had a breakthrough in my writing. A huge one.

I’m enjoying it again. It’s easy again.

And this time for real.

I was able to crank out a lot of words over the past couple years. I would sit down and write and shove the words onto the page and hit my word Count goals…

and I hated everything I wrote. I felt so detached from what I was writing, and I convinced myself that I had a process, and the my process w...

Day 2,126: Me Droogies

Josh and I watched A Clockwork Orange tonight for the podcast. Still a couple weeks ahead of schedule, which is just lovely.

The movie itself, not so lovely. It’s violent, particularly towards women, and it’s particularly dark and nihilistic. Not a decent character to be found in the entire movie, save for perhaps the chaplain in the prison…but even he is a blind fool.

It’s not a movie for me. I don’t have that fuck-it-all bone to be tickled inside me. It pushes me away, makes me disengage ra...