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Day 1,801: All Mine

4K Day was all mine today. Yeeesssssss.

I did it all today. Everything. Building work: check. Office/Misc Author work: check. Work out: check. Reading: check. Four thousand words: check. Hang out with the Ho and watch a movie: check.

It was just one of those dope days. I love my new schedule.

But, it’s sleep time now. Good night

2018 Movie #59: Kubo and the Two Strings

Easily one of the prettiest movies to come along in a very long time, it was made up in Portland! Land of the siblings for Liz and I! I remember seeing the hype around this movie last year, never quite understanding what the movie was about, but knowing that people were talking about it.

I…still don’t quite know what this movie was about

Day 1,800: I Want 4K

I want 4K.

No, not the TV resolution. The writing goal. That’s what I want tomorrow. Just saying it out loud.

Here’s the plan: have a decently restful day during the day tomorrow (get my stuff done early)…and then rock the writing. The key is always getting the first two sessions done to total 3,000 words. If I do that, I’m always golden for the last 1,000. That’s my focus tomorrow, those first two sessions.

The A’s lost the Wild Card game against the Yankees tonight. They got bombed. 7-2. Ou...

2018 Movie #58: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

I love blu-ray collections. They’re pretty much the only kind of movies I actually buy, where I can get a whole set of something all at once. It’s the collector and the completionist in me, I suppose, but I *love* *it*.

My newest movie collection is the boxed blu-ray set from Disney of all Hayao Miyazaki’s 11 feature films. The first of which is Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, his debut as a director, and his entry into an existing film franchise surrounding Lupin the Third, a gentleman...

Day 1,799: New

This whole new schedule is…well, new. It’s still taking me some getting used to.

I will say this: I know I can swing it. It’s just gonna take that time, to rewrite my brain as to when I should be writing. It’s hard to pick up and start that for any length of time between 5 and 9pm. I’m just not used to it.

BUT: I worked out today, I got all my other work done…AND I wrote 2,700 words. I mean…that’s a huge day. Huge. So, it’s working. Little by little, I’ll get there.

Tomorrow is a day “off.” I...

Day 1,798: Maniac

Y’all, Maniac on Netflix is soooo gooooood. Truly. Fan. Tastic. Do yourself a favor: watch it.

Writing. Acting. Humor. Drama. Directing. Visuals. Characters…it’s so weird, and so funny, and so poignant. And they stick the landing, for the most part. And by that I mean that they get the ending *right*. Thank lawdy. I was 100% in. It’s one of the best-written shows I’ve seen in a very, very long time. Bowled over by the writing and the direction, particularly. And the acting.

Watch it.

I tried...

Day 1,797: Panda Mobile

What a DAY.

My entire day was essentially wrapped up in getting Panda Mobile, Liz’s 2000 Honda Civic, ready to sell. And…we sold it! Got a decent price for it.

And I’m exhausted. Dead. Tired. Good lord.

Today is day 16 of 90, I do believe. I got my writing done just now. We’ve been watching Maniac on Netflix, and it’s soooo good. There is a ton of that show that echoes some of the storytelling in my current book, and it’s been very exciting and interesting to see how they’ve handled certain p...

Day 1,796: 225 Words

I did 225 words today. But damn they were good. I’m not even joking. Really good. Not what I’d envisioned for the scene, but so much better. The real-ness.

That kind of…unexpected content (terrible word for it, but that’s all I can think of to mash together what it is, which is action, dialogue, point of view, thought, or feeling) is a major part of my process. I’ve learned I can only outline to a point, because I rarely ever know what a scene is *really* about until I’m actually there at the...

Day 1,795: Anaheim

We went down today to Anaheim to watch the A’s play. We lost. Dammit! Not playing so hot down the stretch here to end the season–at least not scorching hot, anyway–but

Day 1,794:

Day 13 of 90: I wrote today and I played golf with Josh.

434 words of outlining. I finished the book. Story-wise. I got to the end. It’s still rough. I’m not at the ending I want. But, that will come with the rewrites. That will come.

Golf was awesome, as were the Iced Teas and talk afterwards. Filmed the bear in the morning, we watched some Maniac at night…it was a busy, busy day. I’m tired. Feeling a bit…stressed, I guess; I haven’t had all that successful of a week work-wise. These outlini...