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Good/n squad

This evening I had drinks with other creative folks, though they’re not writers. The idea of passive income and side projects bounced around. Surround yourself with good people! It’s an important life skill. 🙂

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Meeting of the minds

Writing news for the day: had some long overdue brews with some fellow writers. Exciting to hear about some of their projects.

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2,000 words achieved

Clocked in the rough start of the story at 2,300 words! Then I spent a ton of time crafting a cover for Wattpad so it’d look nice. This now means I have three stories on the go, plus this blog, plus the website rehash, plus the building of the platform. […]

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New project underway!

In order to take a crack at a Wattapd novella contest, I need to write a thing! The CHILLCRAFTERS story is the most blown out thing I have, and I remembered being pretty excited about the premise… so I kicked up some 820 words of a first scene today! I […]

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Editing’s end in sight

Only a few chapters to go! Then comes the not-so-simple part of applying the edits. Then the cover. AND I’d like to get HM ep2 published, but half of it is still feedback-less… so it’d be nice to have it looked at. There’s a Wattpad contest deadline fast approaching that […]

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Red pen II

Got through half the manuscript. I’d really like to put the story up on Critique Circle… but alas, it is too darn big. Even if I paid for the week-after-week approach, it’d take some 12-15 weeks to get all the feedback! (Update: checked and I think I was confused: you […]

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Ceremonies and tabletops

Attended a Remembrance Day ceremony in the morning, then did the habitual board games thing in the late afternoon until like, midnight. Had a whole pile of fun. Very much needed after the week of insanity.

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Red pen

Began copyedits on CHILDSEEKER; the final printed pages are getting red pen treatment. The opener is still problematic for me, and may go through one more round of rewriting before I finally ship the damn thing. Goal is to do it this month!

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Book club

The event happened and nothing exploded and everyone survived! Plan was to go home and collapse in a pile of exhaustion, but I crashed my friend’s book club instead and talked about Hunting Midnight. They’re probably going to put in rotation! Coooool.

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Event’s eve

Planning all day, dress rehearsal, home by 10pm, alarm set for 4am for go time.

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