In my last update (How two months got lost) I ended on the cautiously optimistic note of ‘My next goal is the 14th of February, two months after I began my break. We’ll see if I make it.’ I did! On precisely the 14th of February, I returned to writing my total rewrite project of…
As I mentioned in my October update, November got off to a slow start, with my first week being largely committed to an iRacing event with teammates. I actually started writing on the eight of November. My project for this month was still the rewrite of The Shadow of the Ruin (for which I am…
This past month, I finally moved past the planning stage and started committing actual bits to a file for the rewrite of The Shadow of the Ruin. It wasn’t my most productive month ever, but it was a start. In total, I completed 5 chapters this month, totaling 16,574 words. I have had to revise…
This is going to be a sad roundup, and there’s no way around that. I didn’t get much of anything done in September. Unfortunately, the emergent situation that I talked about in my August roundup did not have a good ending. Our cat, Shale, was taken to the emergency vet as the culmination of several…
This is something I’ve been planning for a while to help keep me updating and working. My first ‘monthly roundup’ is going to be a bit of a belated one, because although I haven’t done much of any writing work in the month of September yet, I also haven’t done much of anything else, including…
How two months got lost (December & January Round-up)
At the start of December, 2021, I took a break before Christmas, having made a solid (if somewhat slow) start to the long-intended rewrite of my first novel, The Shadow of the Ruin. When I stopped on the 14th of December, I had added another 12,070 words to my rewrite, bringing it to 48,677 –…
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