I cannot believe it’s the end of April already.

Seriously… what a month. Mostly in personal things–it was an extremely trying month. But! Looking at what I did get accomplished, I’m pretty impressed with myself! The biggest one, of course: condo is sold. Signed, sealed, delivered! It’s off our hands. After three months of reno-ing on the weekends with a three year old trailing along, it’s hard to express what a relief this is. Now we’re looking for a new place and 👻

Anyway, on to the actually pertinent stuff. Y’know, writing!

As you can see from the summary below–this month was focused heavily on two projects: Loyalty (which has moved into beta-reading) and Into the Grey (to which I managed to add 24k words). No real progress on other projects, unfortunately.

PROGRESS in April

DRAFTING/EDITING PROJECTS

1. Bolfenn: beta reading (no updates. Is it OK to nudge a beta reader if there’s like no progress? I don’t want to irritate anyone but…)
2. Into the Grey: drafting, 26k/100k target (broke 50k last night!)
3. Loyalty: alpha reading (beta reading)
4. Sacrifice: currently at 58k/90k target (no progress this month)

QUERYING PROJECTS

1. Bootstrap_: Sent three queries:
   1. Another two rejections this month. Also submitted a couple more places.

IN THE SOMEDAY-QUEUE

No updates from last month 😭

1. Lesbian Island actual title The Spicer’s Wife, historical spec-fic: needs a from-the-ground-up rewrite
2. Sad Valkyrie, historical fantasy: also needs a from-the-ground-up rewrite
3. That Sequel to Bolfenn, sci-fi/new-adult
   I am tentatively combining this with another prequel story on the history of the Ala’pr and the Niptae. Combined 5500/100k words.
4. The Dreamers and the Dying, hard sci-fi: 2300 words, on pause
5. The Vernacular of the Regency Romance, LGBTQ historical romance, not even started but I ❤ this idea so much ugh

And as for goals… it was a pretty successful month!

GOALS for April

Writing

1. Get all the Loren-POV chapters in Loyalty in their own doc, read this story, and revise so it is a satisfying narrative
   if it’s satisfying or not, I don’t know, but it’s reasonably coherent.
2. Commission character artwork of Casey+Norah in the Ll’Amh bay and begin offering this as a freebie for physical sales
3. Add at least another 20k words to Into The Grey
4. Sell five copies (or complete KENP reads) of Identity
   As of today–four. Sooooo close 😭
5. Add at least 5k words to Sacrifice
   Haha nope.

Blogging

1. People liked the post on Print Formatting! So I’ll publish Part Two this month
   Nope.
2. Collate links and publish the initial Megapost of Online Writing Tools

Social Media

1. I’d like to increase from 1400ish followers on Twitter to about 2400
   Another close one. I’m at about 2150 right now! 1000 per month was probably a bit too ambitious.
2. Get another review!
   THREE new reviews. Blasted past this one.