A Little Treat
Just a quick update, today, while I try to get shit done.
First, I’m starting the next round of edits on the first book in my series. My beta readers have come through brilliantly and I’ve been working on the notes we made to the manuscript. I’m still excited about it, and I still love it and all my characters, so I’m feeling really good about it.
This past week’s word count goal for book two was 10,000, and I reached that yesterday, bringing the total word count for it up to over 20,000. I wasn’t expecting to get this far this quickly, but I gave book one a little more time to marinate than I had planned. I celebrated with a little treat, which was sitting down and finally reading the 500-page sci-fi book I’ve been trying to read for a month. Physical books are always harder for me to finish because I have to find the time to sit down and be still and hold it. I usually read on my e-reader, which I can take on the elliptical, so I finish books faster that way.
My next little treat will be writing a short story follow-up to the fanfic I posted on AO3 back in January. One day, almost two weeks ago, I wrote about 200 words in book two before my brain blasted me with a fully formed idea for a short Christmas story to accompany my fanfic, and I wrote an 1800-word outline for it. So technically, I hit my 2000-word daily goal. I’m counting it as a win.
I’m also using that short fanfic as an incentive for my husband to finish reading book one, since he’s not big into romance, but enjoys my fanfic. Finish reading my romance novel, darling, and I’ll give you more Strangefrost.
In other news, I’m looking into traveling to New Zealand, since they’re letting heathens like me visit again. Since book one takes place there, I figure I should probably get a refresher on the lay of the land, the climate, the smells, the lingo, you know. Also an opportunity to visit some friends. It’s been a hard two years, not traveling, but I think I’m ready to wander the world again.
Other than that, the only other major thing happening is the fact that our entire HVAC system basically blew up and needed to be replaced and cost…so much money. Like. So. Much. Money. So if you’d like to help out with that, because I entertain you, or because you love me, or, honestly for whatever reason, there’s a link to my Ko-Fi at the bottom of this page, and any help is deeply appreciated.
Okay. Back to writing.