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Day 1,753: The Queen Of Soul

The Queen died today. Aretha Franklin.

I first heard Aretha young enough that I don’t even remember. It’s funny to say, but I don’t look back on my days as a child and recall all that much music being played in our household, at least popular music, anyway. And yet, Aretha Franklin was there. Arguably the biggest talent of her era, and what an era it was, ya?

She will be missed.

Liz is chasing Cooper around the bedroom right now because she wanted him to do something and he was like “nuh-uh.”...

Day 1,752: Silly Coco

Coco’s been doing this thing lately where she doesn’t eat her nighttime Whimzee right away. She waits. I’m not sure what she’s waiting for, but I give it to her, and she just kind of watches me until I come to bed, and she keeps it close by, but she doesn’t start eating. I have to reach over and pick it up for her again and show it to her, and then she starts to chew on it. So weird.

I don’t understand her thought process sometimes. Like, for a while, she was convinced that the microwave was...

Day 1,751: The Long Road

I’m going to start with A’s talk tonight instead of writing talk

Day 1,750: Word Storm!

I’m back, bitches. BACK, I SAY!

I wrote 4,000 words today. Like a boss is wont to do. They were pretty good words, too. I’m figuring out this troublesome section, having characters actually taking actions and asking questions that make sense. It’s a relief. I was worried, to be honest, after taking last week to brainstorm my way through taking a wrong turn in the story cave.

I needn’t have been.

I can do this. And on a regular basis, too. Whew!

I also got my two mailing list emails composed a...

2018 Movie #55: The Meg

True story: the Ho and I have been looking forward to seeing this movie ever since the first trailer came out for it in the early parts of this year. We love summer popcorn movies. We love sharks, and we love dinosaurs, thus we love megalodons. HOW COULD IT NOT BE AMAZING?

Lots of ways, it turns out.

THE BLURB:

A massive creature attacks a deep-sea submersible, leaving it disabled and trapping the crew at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With time running out, rescue diver Jonas Taylor must s...

Day 1,749: Quicker

Doing a quick entry tonight because it’s sleepy time.

I wrote a crap-ton of movie reviews today, trying to catch up on that. I have a good dozen more to do, give or take, so I’ll try and break those up over the week. Maybe. We’ll see. It’s just another thing on the list to do.

I work tomorrow. I’m nervous about it, just because writing was hard last week. But, I’m resolved. Tomorrow, writing WILL happen. And then next day, and then for the rest of the week, too. The only way I finish this boo...

Day 1,748: Dem Pups

I am struck this evening by how perfect dem pups are. Cuz they are PERFECT. So sweet. So snuggly. So into treats.

We went out tonight to a birthday part in Hollywood, Los Feliz to be precise, and it was just about the most hollywood-y party we’d ever been to. For reals. There was a shuttle to pick us up, a pink carpet for us to walk, cocktails waiting at the door, and then three separate areas (no! Four, if you counted inside the house) to hang out and drink. Two food buffets…it was all out,...

Day 1,747: An odd week…

This was…an odd week.

I don’t feel like I was a rock star this week. Not like I felt the previous two. This week was a lot less of the “I can fucking do this” and a lot more of the “jfc, am I ever going to crack this story. Which is to say, it was a dramatic week of a lot of ups and downs. And there were definitely ups. In fact, I would say the week had far more ups than it did the downs.

I figured out some MAJOR stuff with my book, but the biggest win of all was actually getting excited for...

Day 1,746: Outlining and Golf

I had an excellent day outlining today. Some really, really good ideas both for adjustments to make on what I’ve already written, and ideas on finishing this bad boy up. I’m essentially “losing” a week here by doing this outlining stuff, but it was necessary. So very, very necessary. It’s actually getting to the point where I’m itching to write again, to write the rest…and that’s the money spot, the pot of gold.

So, that was wonderful. I felt really inspired. It’s been a while on this book, o...

Day 1,745: Tennissssssss

Omg. What a busy day!

I got a toooonnn of stuff done today. Little bit of the writing, some household chores, some email stuff–which is annoying, btw; my email list provider is on the fritz again and I think it’s time to move along, ughhhhh–and then the best part: tennis.

It’s literally been a couple years since I last played tennis. So long that the grip I got, which was almost brand new at the time, is now old enough to be disintegrating in my hands. Yikes.

Two years, I think? Something lik...