Who Hates February?

A quick update, since we started work on my sleeve the other day and my wrist and fingers are still sore. Lots of rejections for book 1! Book 2 is off with beta readers. I have notes on both I need to work on, but again, voluntary injury must get better first. Work on book 3 is stalled, though I already have the two main tropes (second-chance romance and road trip) and several scene ideas jotted down. I have to get out of the house for the day, to a cafe or the library or somewhere else that isn’t my house and needy cats, and just sit there and brainstorm that story.

Still stressed about our vacation next month, with the number one stressor being finding people to take care of our cats. The house projects are inching along slower than I’d like, but at least there’s forward movement. Spouse finally got a date for his surgery. We’re broken people.

I also finally, finally made plans to visit New Zealand later this year. I had the money saved but emotionally couldn’t justify spending money in general after our HVAC needed to be entirely replaced last spring. But it’s a new year with new problems, and I knew if I didn’t finalize the plans, I would use up that money that was set aside on little things here and there until it was gone without having visited. And that was unacceptable to me.

I signed up for several classes, seminars, workshops, and I’m most excited about a horror writing workshop that starts next month. I know there’s overlap among genres, and my fanfic dabbles in horror (that’s what happens when Dr Strange gets in the mix), and I think it’ll help me in general as well as horror-wise.

So I’ve got a lot planned for the upcoming months! I don’t know how I’m always so busy, but it suits me.