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I wrote for fifteen minutes today. What’s the point of writing for fifteen minutes? It helps me keep up the routine. The longer I spend away from my writing projects, the scarier they become. If I miss one day, the chances of me missing the next day double. So I wrote for fifteen minutes, not…

Some days are like yesterday: I was tired, I didn’t want to write, and I was pulling words out of my brain one by one. But then there are days like today, when my timer goes off to let me know I have somewhere else to be, and I just hit snooze and keep writing,…

Writing today felt like driving to school in a snowstorm. I didn’t want to do it in the first place, and once I got started, the going was hard. Also, I couldn’t stop thinking to myself, “Why didn’t we get a snow day today?”, which made it really difficult to focus. I worked for a…

Today I shortened “The Art of Directing Adult Films” from six pages to four pages. That meant deleting a lot of jokes that were funny, but didn’t contribute to the sketch as a whole. It was hard to do. The sketch is better now. I kept working on “Beyond the Walls,” too. Right now, my…

I sat down for two hours on the fourth floor of Tutt Library this evening, put on my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist and worked on “Beyond the Walls,” a fantasy short story that I want to finish by Sunday. I spent a little bit of time on my novel, too, just to keep up the…

After lunch Mira and I spent an hour passing jokes back and forth for the sketch that’s now called “The Art of Directing Adult Films.” Then the sketch comedy club read through a dozen sketch drafts. One of them was my sketch about a boy whose girlfriend breaks up with him while he’s playing Fortnite.…

Today I took a plane ride from Logan Airport in Boston, MA, to Denver International Airport in Denver, CO. After a little sleeping and reading, I pulled out my computer and worked on my novel. Progress was slow. I’m stuck on a chapter and kept going back to change things. Transitioning back to school also…