Ira Heinichen

Indian food. Good company. Late night walks with the pups. A Photo Booth. Chore planning. Reading and writing. Nap. It was a busy day. Night night.

Liz and I made Soon Tofu together for dinner tonight, and got boba while we picked up the ingredients. It was lovely. The doc we watched wasn’t great, but it was still a perfect evening. Burned out writing today. Hit a wall. But that’s okay. It happens. I’ll make up some ground tomorrow and Sunday. We’ll get there. I have faith. It’s going well, truly. I’m enjoying what I’m writing. Again, what…

Thiiiiis close to getting the Netflix project across the finish line. This. Close. I finished my overcut today, which is to say, I swapped out all our temporary footage with the final stuff. Good LORD it took a long time. Very, very precise work. Some stuff had been built in one program, other stuff in another, which made it tough because the settings don’t necessarily translate 1-to-1. That, and…

Worked my booty off today. Writing got disrupted because Netflix work was so busy, but it is what it is, you know? I’m in good shape for tomorrow. End the week strong and I’ll find a way to make it up. The book is in good shape. I’m started to relax some. Getting into a rhythm. 12 pages a day isn’t such a big lift anymore. The writing flows, now. Been a while since a fine distinction, so maybe…

Bit of a hectic day. Therapy during lunch seems to do that sometimes. But mostly it was just that work was busy. Or, rather, urgent. That’s been it, lately. It’s not so much that I’m nose down every second of the day, but rather than when something does need to be done, it needs to be done immediately, as quick as possible. Not my ideal environment, for sure, but it also just comes with the…

Parents got some new wheels today! They needed them. My mom’s maverick got totaled a few months back in a hit and run and she’d been going back and forth on whether to get another one…and after their Lincoln died on the way down here to visit, she just made the decision to go ahead and get another one, which I’m very happy about. It’s the perfect truck for her. She’s super jazzed. Work was very…

Perturbed because I didn’t get my reading done today to send off to my cowriter. 30 pages shy. Sigh. I hope I can make it up tomorrow. The book reads well, though! That’s a relief. Just need to keeeeeep griiiiiinding. Fam was in town. That’s what happened. Distracted. It was a nice day together, though. Got lots of little errands done, watched Spain win the World Cup, took a nap, hung out with…

Hit the page count this morning. Woot. Did some reading too, though I’ll have more of that tomorrow before sending it off as the first batch to my co-author. Did the Wolfie hang. We played beat saber and then Mario Odyssey. Parents were supposed to be coming in after that…but they broke down! Right before the grapevine, the car died. They got it towed to a dealership that opens on Monday, and I…

Almost didn’t get them pages done today…but I did it. I’m set up to catch up tomorrow, and then Sunday, too, everything, even reading. Whew. That will be nice. Wiped. Get to see fam tomorrow though. Night night.

I recalled an interaction with an old friend today, listening to Dancing On My Own, which is a song that missed me when I first came out. I only really discovered it a few years ago, and by that I mean that I discovered that it was one of my favorite songs. The interaction was with Melissa. I knew her in high school. Friend is actually, probably, too strong a term. We were friendly. We knew each…

So, it was one hundred degrees today. Whew! Felt like it, too, which I suppose it always does when it gets that hot. It doesn’t always feel like the temperature it is outside in LA. Sometimes it feels warmer than it really is, sometimes it doesn’t feel quite as warm. But when we hit the high nineties, it always feels like it should—freaking hot. I did lots of writing. I did lots of Netflixing.…

We keepin it light again tonight because it was a buuusssyyyy day. Unexpectedly so. But I did good work. Got not all but plenty of my writing done. Enough that I can make it work. Wiped. Night night.

A quick one tonight because I’m tiiiiiired…but it was a good day. Got my shit done. Woohoo! Night night.

Back in the day, on a Friday or Saturday night, Maggiano’s at The Grove was a poppin, poppin place. I worked the host stand for the first year or so that I was employed there, and it was madness. We were in a tiny little cubby that looked like it should have been a coat closet, right underneath the stairs and next to the bar, right where the entrance to the main dining room was, and it would get…

The prequel novel is edited. Off to our readers tomorrow, and then to the mailing list. Lemonade from the neighborhood kid’s stand was delicious, especially with cherry. The pups are the loves of my life. Mom gave me the dates she’s coming down. I took a nap, though it wasn’t long enough. I’ll try again tomorrow. I’m burned out…but gotta keep pushing. I’m almost caught up. Almost. Another…

The new book is 50 pages old. Need to add another 10 more over the weekend to hit my goal, but I can do it. Phew. It was looking dicey there around mid-week, but we rallied, big time. The pages flew by today. I made some good choices in my outline, made the scenes so very easy to write. I know some people—“pantsers”—don’t outline because the act of coming up with the story once will rob them of…

Good writing day! Whew. I needed it. Almost didn’t happen, which is kinda wild that I recovered, but the morning is usually so crucial to hitting the page count, but my morning was not great. I don’t think I did even half of what I was supposed to. And then I was wiped, for some reason, for the first half of the day…but then I took a nap, got up, and cranked out three super solid hours of work. I…