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Day 4,293: Bespoke

Watching a Grand Designs right now about a family (a dad) building their own house with no money and it’s taking ages…and I remember this house. I believe it doesn’t get done in time for the first episode so they come back to it later…and I might be conflating it with a different house, but I’m pretty sure it’s not even finished in that later episode and all the children have grown up and moved away. We’ll see. Almost done with it.

That happens sometimes. It happened, more or less, with my fa...

Day 4,292: Golden

A non-starter day. Blech. Didn’t have the focus. But I will tomorrow. The full day. That’s all I have to say about that.

I started Portrait of a Lady on Fire and it is already fantastic. Moving. Doesn’t explain itself but crystal fucking clear. The *sound* is spectacular. The location is incredible. Script is sparse but precise, like a knife; cuts right to it. The leads are beautiful. The adventure is so clear and so fun—she must paint the portrait of a woman who doesn’t want to be painted (…...

Day 4,291: Lifeboat

We watched a really cool episode of Grand Designs tonight that was about a lifeboat house—one of those ones built right on the beach with the launch ramp attached so the boat can be deployed at any time, like, from the Coast Guard—that this older couple was converting into a house. Didn’t agree with all their choices, and I don’t think I’d ever choose to live literally out on top of the water like that…but it was really well done. So ambitious. And the building itself was just over 100 years old...

Day 4,290: MCR

The My Chemical Romance show is pretty spectacular. Might be the most impressive concert I’ve ever been to, at least in terms of storytelling and theatricality. I was really, really impressed. And their music is also just so good for live performance. Very glad we went!

I got my writing done today. Whew. I’m at 420 pages. Probably another…50? 60? Something like that. We’re to the point where all the shit is going down. Final showdown. Full beans. So close to being done. And this is right arou...

Day 4,289: Hang

Had an author hang today, and it was delightful. It was just four of us, but that made it so easy to have a nice long catch up. One author I knew decently already, but the other two I’d only ever met very briefly, so it was really cool to get to know them. Community is so important, particularly face-to-face community, and, yeah. Just very glad that I did it. It was a good hang.

I got my pages done. I watched some F1 (which is finally back). I took a very brief nap. Watched Grand Designs in t...

Day 4,288: Taters

Passed the 400-page mark. Milestone. I have another full day of writing tomorrow to make up for what I lost this week and last…but then I’ll basically be right on target. One more week I think? Maybe a couple days past that? We’ll see.

Night.

Day 4,287: St. Jo’s

A family member had a little health scare/episode today. They seem to be okay now, but positive thoughts are appreciated. I’m positive about the outcome. I think they’re going to be fine, but you can never take that for granted, you know? Always a little scary.

I had a great writing day, though! I don’t even know how many pages I wrote. I think it was, actually, I can figure that out. Sixteen. That’s exactly the day I needed. Whew. I’ll be very close to hitting the exact page count I wanted t...

Day 4,286: Not It

Today was almost a wipeout. But it wasn’t! That was the win today, no question. I was right there, sitting in my chair, listening to the little pre-meditation thing, and the voice in my head telling me I just didn’t have it to finish the day out was STRONG y’all. It was loud. And making a lot of sense. Things got derailed in the morning for my second writing session, so I was already behind…and for whatever reason, that’s my weakness. I have such a hard time digging in and rescuing the day if I ...

Day 4,285: Back!

I’m back baby. Not that I was gone…but I am back in the rhythm. Had a very good writing day, both in terms of page count and the writing itself. I’m, well, I’m not as close to the end as I want to be, but I am getting there. Might break 500 pages on this one, but we’ll see. It’ll be however long it needs to be. Made a couple cuts today, even, just for pacing. It felt right in the moment, so I did it. I always do that. The outline is just there to look out for me, you know? Keep me going. But wha...

Day 4,284: Push Harder

Quick one tonight. Great writing session in the morning. Rough one attention-span-wise in the evening. It’s because I got out of my rhythm. But that’s okay! It’s okay. I still got 8 pages done. Not the end of the world. I can keep going. Push harder. Get this book done.

Night night.