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Day 2,070: The Lucky Few

Josh and I got to podcast tonight. If we record again on Friday, we might actually get a week ahead of our schedule.

That would be…amazing. So amazing. I’d love to try and do it one more time, which would get us two episodes ahead…and then skip a week with a new movie and do a Cutting Room Floor. That would get us three weeks ahead. A nice cushion. A cushion I know we’re going to need.

We watched Modern Times tonight and…well, I’ll save it for the podcast, I think.

Work has gotten crazy. Craz...

Day 2,069: Goodbye

Goodbye to a couple things tonight.

First: goodbye to Andre Iguodala.

The Warriors began their dynasty by trading for him in 2013. He was a key piece…perhaps THE key piece…in catapulting them from an intriguing young playoff team to becoming champions.

We traded him today.

It truly is the end of an era. Oh, and by KD, too…you’re an incredible player who helped us win back to back championships, and what should have been a third. I’ll miss you too and your amazing shooting. But, honestly, we w...

Day 2,068: What To Say?

I feel like I’m going through a period with my blog where I don’t have a lot to say.

It’s not exactly fatigue, I don’t think. I’m not fatigued with the blog per se…

I don’t know what it is. I just know I’ve been so tired lately when I’m sitting here in bed ready to write about my day and my thoughts and my emotions…I haven’t really wanted to spend that much more time writing them all out.

Maybe it’s partly that I’m going to therapy each week, and talking about those things instead?

I don’t kn...

Day 2,067: Takes It Out of You

Podcasting sure takes it out of you.

I am *exhausted* right now. Whew!

Josh and I podcasted, and it was a good one tonight. We watched The Wild Bunch, which was a western that neither of us had ever seen before. To be honest…the western genre of films is a entire era that I hardly know anything about. I wasn’t raised on westerns. I haven’t picked them up on my own in my older years.

This was a good one. I won’t say more than that and ruin anything

Day 2,066: Help

Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Don’t be too proud.

Honestly, and this one is mostly for me: don’t be so stupid.

I wish I’d asked for help with my book sooner. A lot sooner…which is to say–because I’m not going to hold onto that disappointment or misery any longer than I must–I’m so happy that I asked for help, and now I’m receiving it.

Just the process of articulating to another writer what it is that I want to accomplish, say, and put my characters through has been a revelation. A REVELATI...

Day 2,067: Help

Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Don’t be too proud.

Honestly, and this one is mostly for me: don’t be so stupid.

I wish I’d asked for help with my book sooner. A lot sooner…which is to say–because I’m not going to hold onto that disappointment or misery any longer than I must–I’m so happy that I asked for help, and now I’m receiving it.

Just the process of articulating to another writer what it is that I want to accomplish, say, and put my characters through has been a revelation. A REVELATI...

Day 2,065:

I’m so, so grateful I decided to start writing every day before bed.

I had no desire to do it tonight. At all. But I just did two sessions. One for Starstuff, another for Old Glory. Both of them are exciting stuff. I’m excited to write them. Especially Starstuff.

An idea just came to me in the moment, right there as I was thinking that writing tonight would be a waste of time. A good idea. One that I can write. And then I had another one.

I’m more inspired at night. Of this there is no questi...

Day 2,064: New TV

So, we have a new TV in the Ho-Heinichen household.

Wait! You might reasonably respond. Didn’t you juuust get a new TV?

Well, yes. Thank you for keeping score. We did. But that TV didn’t fucking work, so after trying to get it repaired for foreeevveeerrrrr (two weeks), I was able to just bring it in tonight to the store I bought it from and switch it out for a new one. Whew!

Work today was great. I didn’t finish, which surprised me a bit, this particular section of work is taking me a little...

Day 2,063: Brain Tired

I had an odd night tonight. Nothing really to do, no projects that were a pressing need…and I think I just kinda gave into the “tired.” Or, maybe feeling just a bit down. In a normal “up and down” kind of way, not anything too intense.

I didn’t feel like that during the day, though.

I had a very productive work day at work. And on my reading. And on my writing.

I just kinda…fell flat when I got home. It happens sometimes, I guess.

Burned out, actually…that’s what I feel like tonight. “Brain”...

Day 2,062: Fine

I think I’m about two weeks into writing every day. Love that shit. I just wrote some new words for the military sci-fi story I have in mind. It’s a great opening. Vivid to me. It’s such a contrast to the rest of the book. I love it. It feels real.

So, yeah…at the very least, I’ve been able to set myself a habit of writing creatively every day. It’s only 10 minutes, but each and every time I sit down to do those ten minutes, I feel engaged and present and not just totally stressed out.

I love...