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Day 2,034: Yikes

Watching Chernobyl and…yikes.

I mean, I’ve read about the disaster. Can’t remember why I read about it, but it wasn’t that long ago. I learned about the test gone wrong, how the firefighters could taste metal in their mouths and how they died excruciating deaths just a few days and weeks later, how from that point on, it was a race against time to bury the reactor…

But, damn. Watching it play out in cinematic fashion, it’s much more horrifying than just reading about it. And there is SO MUCH...

Day 2,033: The Reality

I’m so glad I’m going to therapy. For reals. That shit is the shit.

I was doing a self check-in on my way there this morning and in the waiting room, and I realized, really realized how many stress triggers I’d gone through over the past two weeks.

Finishing Story Grid submission stuff; good event, but even good stress is still stress.

That made me think a lot about getting back into writing my next book…

…which made me think about who to hire as an editor/coach.

Which led to me fucking up an...

Day 2,032: There It Is

I had a much more productive day at home today. AND, I got to go see Liz at work with her new cast and crew. Merry Happy Whatever is the name of the show. Coming to Netflix this…holiday season? Not sure about that last part. We’ll see.

Cooper’s been feeling under the weather lately. Yesterday, he threw up both his breakfast and his dinner. Today, he was much better, though. We still have cans of the special easy-to-digest wet food from the vet back when Coco was having the tummy troublems and...

Day 2,031: A Long One

I had an interesting day today.

I struggle to work from home. I’m not used to it now. I realized acutely today that I depend on going to work to get me into the working mindset. Which is, I guess, just a representation of how my work-at-home life has evolved over the past year and a half or so.

In a word: challenging.

That’s going to change. Starting tomorrow. I’m going to set myself a schedule tomorrow, and I’m going to stick with it.

Schedules also used to be my friend, but they haven’t bee...

Day 2,030: Another Quick One

Le sigh. Has to be another quick entry because it’s so late already.

Josh and I podcasted Easy Rider. It was…a trip. We had a blast watching it, and even more of a blast talking about it and “genre” beforehand.

Odd day for me. I felt like I had to clean and organize, so I did. Looking forward to discussing my book with a fellow author tomorrow, see if he might be able to help me finish it.

Night!

Day 2,029: A Quick One

Doing a quick one tonight because it’s late, but today…was a great day.

I did some writing. And I think I know, really for the first time, with clarity, why this Escape From Red Tower book has been so far to write. I’ve pinpointed the emotional truth that I haven’t been confronting, which is why the entire Petrick storyline has been so impossible for me to write.

The Red Robert storyline has been good and alive since the moment I started writing it. It’s always been Petrick’s story that’s bee...

Day 2,028: The Joy

I’ve been thinking a lot about the “joy” since the Nebulas.

Sally was the one who really nailed that for me in our all-too-brief sit-down together. We talked about my struggles lately, and she was right to point out that the joy was missing.

I mean, like most epiphanies with me, it’s not a completely new thought. But, for whatever reason, it just clicked differently talking to her. It is what’s missing. It’s not a problem with me. It’s not a problem with the story, per se, or my process, or r...

2,028: The Joy

I’ve been thinking a lot about the “joy” since the Nebulas.

Sally was the one who really nailed that for me in our all-too-brief sit-down together. We talked about my struggles lately, and she was right to point out that the joy was missing.

I mean, like most epiphanies with me, it’s not a completely new thought. But, for whatever reason, it just clicked differently talking to her. It is what’s missing. It’s not a problem with me. It’s not a problem with the story, per se, or my process, or r...

Day 2,027: Goodbye GOT

Game of Trones is dun.

Tonight’s episode was

Day 2,026: Nebulas

I went to the Nebula Awards dinner tonight. I…really enjoyed myself.

The group I was with didn’t win any of the awards they were nominated for. Unfortunately. But, I still enjoyed the speakers and the speeches, and generally just the celebration of artists by their peers.

I think that SFWA at-large has really done the indie author community a disservice with the way they’ve treated them this year. I’m not going to go into what happened; that’s been debated ad nauseum. But…SFWA is an organizat...