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Day 1,917: It’s Always Hard

It’s always hard.

At least, I know it is for me. Nothing in my life that I would call a “win” has ever been easy for me…and the older I get, the more I hear that it’s that way for everyone.

I agonized over Starstuff for almost three full years before that book got published, and I’d consider that experience to be ten times easier than it’s been with this second book. But…

But. I will persevere. I will succeed. I will finish.

This past week and a half or so has been a real wake-up call. I didn...

Day 1,916: Muck

Off day today, and I mean that mentally. It was a hard day, one filled with wondering if I was ever going to figure out this story of mine. And the answer is I will…but lots of angst about it today.

I’m getting some help tho. From Liz. Can’t wait.

That’s all for tonight. Good night.

Day 1,915: Coming Together

I had a very, very nice day off today.

I didn’t do a whole lot.

I played Beat Saber. I watched the documentary Fyre on Netflix about the Fyre music festival epic debacle. I watched the Warriors handle the Celtics despite a run they put together in the 4th quarter.

And, I worked on the Film School podcast, which is coming together. I listened to it and did a *very* small amount of editing to it, saved a section for a Cutting Room Floor episode, and worked on the website.

It’s not all done yet,...

Day 1,914: Yum Yums

One of the most common, oft repeated phrases in the Ho-Heinichen household is “did they have their yum yums?”

Coops and Coco each get a dental treat before bed, which they LOVE. And they love those treats so much, they’ll try to convince Liz and/or myself that they haven’t had one yet, even if they have

Day 1,913: good day

I got a message today–well, I saw it today, it was sent a couple days ago–from someone who was excited to read the rest of the Starstuff series…and man, it gave me a little boost. Not that I exactly *needed* a boost today. My writing today was brief, but solid. Good words. Words I think I can use.

I have to cut it short tonight. I didn’t get enough sleep last night, so tonight…it’s gotta be a full 8 hours

Day 1,912: Pushing Through

I had another rough writing day today until I didn’t.

It was rough to start, and I was afeared that I wouldn’t get my second hour in at the end of the day because I had to leave at 5 in order to podcast with Josh, but I finished my work just early enough to sit down for a full hour.

I didn’t know what to write, so I just wrote about what I was thinking and feeling in a separate document until I felt ready to roll into my story…and I ended up writing over 2,000 words today.

I do keep writing a...

Day 1,911: Murder Mountain

So, it’s weird to see the place where you grew up on “national tv.” Especially with a title like Murder Mountain.

Liz and I have started watching the show and it is faaaasscinating. I, of course, have HEARD of Murder Mountain. We spoke, in fact, to someone who was a member of the Sheriff’s office about it just about a year or two ago, in fact, and how the impending legality of weed was going to change everything. And it has, and still is…

But I didn’t actually grow up in that particular part...

Day 1,910: Werk werk werk werk werk

Y’all. The visualizing WORKED.

I low-key wrote 2,400 words today. That’s enough for a full chapter…which isn’t exactly the way it happened because I ended up tossing out about 1,500 of those words, but it doesn’t MATTER…because what I got were about 900 of the *right* words.

I’m in my new chapter. Finally. I found it.

Huge.

So, yeah…it’s yet another reminder that I just need to keep pushing forward, day after day. Just Keep Writing. Trust The Process.

Work at the Flix was a bit “slow.” And by...

Day 1,909: The Grind

I busted through this week’s new Film School podcast in like 45 minutes today! What a difference prepping this podcast as opposed to Two Guys One Trek!

TG1T is edited down, and contains a lot of different outside clips I have to pull together to get it all polished and interesting and uptempo. Each episode of that podcast takes me a legit 5-6 hours to produce, and that’s AFTER recording it.

Not Film School. Film school is a bit more raw, and simultaneously less planned and strict, and MORE pl...

Day 1,908: Day Eight

Working through the weekend!

It’s been a while since I’ve worked straight through a weekend. Is it weird that it’s always a little bit…thrilling. Like, it feels kinda hard core, and sh*t’s getting done, so it’s a little…cool?

I was able to pretty easily get my work done today. It did take me all day, right up to 5pm, but I did it. Next week, I have a feeling, is going to be a bit rough. But, it’s also the end of this project I’m working on, beyond making some tweaks and fixing some notes. So,...