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2018 Movie #24: Lion

Lion is based on one of the more incredible true stories I’ve ever heard, quite frankly. Does the film live up to that incredible story? Mostly, yes.

THE BLURB:

Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary te...

Day 1,656: Pickups

It was a stressful day today. And not just for me and the Ho, for pretty much everyone on in television. But, such is life in Hollywood, sigh.

I wrote good words today despite it all. Red Tower is finally, finally churning along. I’m ready for it to start sliding downhill on its own, and although that hasn’t happened yet, at least I’m picking up steam

Day 1,655: Vidz

Man, I spent all day today putting together a 10-minute video. Le sigh. That’s what it took, I suppose.

The video was worth it. It’s a very, VERY quick summary of our vacation. You have no idea. We have literally hours worth of videos and photos from that trip, and I had to distill it down into ten minutes. I’ll link to the video below

Day 1,654: Who’s Counting?

For whatever reason, it strikes me as odd this evening that I still count my blog days. It goes back to the 90-day challenge I first committed to 3-and-a-half years ago. I numbered them then to make sure I did it for 90 days, and the convention just stuck, I guess.

I don’t know how long I’ll do this daily blog. It’s certainly at a point now where the numbers are rather meaningless. Not completely, though. I do enjoy the milestones. Like, reaching 2,000 will be awesome about a year from now. E...

Day 1,653: 3k Day

Guys…I wrote 3,000 words today. Whaaaaaaaat.

Liz asked me how I did it, what was the difference? It was a combination of two things: one, writing every day for the past two weeks (?), three weeks (?), and two, I’m setting story goals instead of word- or page-count goals. Huuuuuge difference when those two are combined.

I had no idea I’d written that many words until I looked at my count before bed. And that’s exactly the way it should be. I don’t want to be checking my word count all the time...

Day 1,652: Back to Werk

I went “back to work” today. I put that air quotes because I’ve really been writing every day lately, even on vacation…and boy, do I have to tell you guys, that is a revelation. It’s curing my productivity woes.

I wrote almost 4,000 words on vacation. On vacation. And yes, I wrote another 2,000 today, so that’s really like two days worth of full time work, but the benefits of those 4,000 words go far beyond just the words themselves.

First off, those would have been ZERO days. No progress mad...

Day 1,651: Infinity War

Making this a quick one tonight because it’s already past 1am, and I gots writins to do tomorrow…but we finally saw Infinity War today, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I recommend it. Whole-heartedly.

This summer could be fun, y’all. Lots of stuff on the horizon that I think might actually be good. We shall see

2018 Movie #23: Avengers: Infinity War

It took Liz and me awhile to see it because we were out on vacation…but I do have to say: it was worth the wait. What a colossal project to put together and make work…and I enjoyed it!

THE BLURB:

Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet — the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos plans to use the artifacts to inflict his twisted will on reality. The fate of the planet and existence itself has never been...

Day 1,650: Home

We’re home.

I did nothing today. It was too exhausting

Day 1,649: The Puppers

If I have one bit of wisdom to impart in terms of going on a vacation…it’s have puppers waiting for you at home. As much as it was breaking our hearts to leave Maui today–and holy bejesus was it–we were equally excited to be home and see Cooper and Coco.

Other dog parents out there, you get this. They are family, pure and simple. Being away from them is hard. We miss them.

Coco has been on my lap since she settled down. Coops has been so snuggly, too , it’s insane, and now we’re all cuddled u...