Personal Update

I come to all of you readers from the past.  I wrote this blog post on Friday, but I didn't want to interrupt the blog tour mania. 

This month has brought quite an accomplishment - mostly me going insane.  Just a little insane.  Regardless, I will spend all Saturday finishing my Camp NaNo novel.  As of Friday, I had 10k to go.  And possibly, come Sunday, I might be done with a novella.

The Unanswerable started out as a blog short story, but someone asked me "Where's the rest of it?"  There was no rest of it, but I thought about this.  I thought about the characters, mulled over their circumstances.  And soon?  I had about ten excerpts from this story posted on my blog.

And I set out to eventually finish it.

I'm glad that July is going to be easier.  I'm planning on dedicating the month to editing Ruhe and Rioss and doing a ton of beta reading for other people.  I'm excited to finally be done with another project - but this Camp NaNo really took it out of me.  Due to my (in)sanity, I am also attempting Camp in August and NaNo in November.

Why?

Because the characters (voices) in my head won't leave me alone!  That's why!

Oh, that and if I finish my novella and another novel by October, I will have written four novels and one novella in a year.

And after never having written one?  And picking up projects only to put them down again for years?  I say it's the greatest accomplishment of my writing life. 

April Goals

As you have probably noticed, I have a lot going on this month - making it one of the most stressful months since college finals (seriously).

But I wanted to take the time to outline my own April Goals, since I feel like I need to get it off my own shoulders and push it out there into blogger world.

• Finish editing Rioss - must submit to a contest that ends before I get back from Hawaii
• Find more beta readers for Rioss
• A to Z Challenge on this blog
• A to Z Challenge on Adorning Schemes (thankfully, I have Llora helping me out over there)
• Keep up with reading/commenting on A to Z challenge blogs
• Keep up with WIP500 (hopefully writing more of The Unanswerable or Kingdom of Obsession)
• Read and post reviews from my "to be read pile" challenge list 
• Finish my April Giveaway
• Prepare the post about Matilda (the next book in the Books that made me love reading challenge)
• Script Frenzy with Llora (100 page comic book script in a month)
• Continue digging up the horrendous back yard
• Go on my honeymoon (April 21, and I won't be back until May)
• Submit Ruhe to another agent (preferably sooner rather than later)
• Find some time to breathe

You guessed it.  My deadline isn't the end of April.  My deadline for everything is the morning I leave for my honeymoon.  April 21st - and it is - gasp - already April 8th

Want to hear my May schedule?  That one is simpler.  WIP500 - write synopsis - edit - query.

Oh, and sleep.  May = sleep month.