Work in Progress Update!

Hi Everyone,

It’s been a bit since my last update. I finally hit 75,000 words on my work in progress, Lies Beneath the Sea! I know what you’re thinking… Weren’t you at 73,000 words like 2 weeks ago? Yes… I was. I hurt my back a week before Christmas and was bedridden for almost a week and a half. During that time I could barely move let alone work on my story. So that set me back quite a bit. Luckily, I’m improved quite a bit and have been trying to get back into my writing habit. I can’t let it stop!!!

So this morning, I hit 75,000 words! That was my minimum goal I wanted to meet with my story and it looks like I’m heading passed it. I’m still estimating finishing around 80,000 words for this first draft. I’ve got quite a lot of editing to do on it at some point… It feels like it’s somewhat of a mess right now but I guess that is what first drafts are supposed to feel like. I’m excited and eager to get started on my next project.

This may be my last update of the year but if something drastic changes… Like I pull a few all nighters over the long weekend and finish my story. We’ll see! Happy New Year everyone!!!

Procrastination

I’m currently writing here instead of working on my novel because… I don’t know I really shouldn’t be. I’m going to a small holiday get-together with my coworkers tomorrow evening. It’s not something I’d normally do but I feel like I’ve been really neglecting them recently. But that’s gonna put a damper on my writing tomorrow evening… This morning instead of getting to do my early writing before work I went to get my Covid booster shot. Luckily no major side effects and I’ll hopefully be fairly protected going forward.

I keep seeing stuff about this new Spiderman movie… I’m really starting to want to break my movie quarantine and go. The last movie I saw in theaters was Sonic, right before Covid became a problem here. I was thinking about breaking the quarantine for Dune and am kind of sad I didn’t… But the more I hear about this Spiderman movie, the more I want to sneak out of work and go watch it. I don’t know if I can wait for the On Demand version!

Update on my NaNoWriMo Novel

Hi everyone,

I set my new finishing goal for my NaNoWriMo Novel to be around 75,000 maybe 80,000 before the end of the year. I’m still hoping to reach that goal and finish my story. I’m at 66,000 words now which is pretty exciting. That’s less than 10,000 to go until I’ve met my ultimate goal. Depending on how fast the ending creeps up on me I’m fairly certain I am going to land somewhere between 75k and 80k. Though maybe some fun side plots will end up taking me passed 80k. I was worried for a while at where my ending was going, where the plot was going, but after a late night revelation I think I see the path ahead! I’m looking forward to finishing this story and giving it some breathing room really soon.

One of the reasons I’m eager to move on is because I have some really fun ideas in my head that I want to start working on for the next project. There are two projects that are standing out to me the most. One as I may have mentioned previously, taking place in my first novel’s universe. Not a continuation but another story set in the world.

The other idea is completely random and actually sounds like a lot of fun. I want to write a Western Fantasy SciFi Mashup. Western being Old-West. An old-west style setting but with creatures, magic, technology? I don’t know. It sounds completely nuts and that’s why it seems like so much fun to try.

Westerns are something I’ve never been into, unless Back to the Future 3 counts. However, my grandma loved them. There’s only one real western I’ve ever seen, True Grit. My grandma was a fan of the original and was absolutely excited to see the new version. She’s sat through countless hours of every type of movie us kids ever wanted to watch (she loved it though, she was one of the biggest movie lovers I ever knew). Anyways, despite my disinterest in Westerns I went with her to watch it. Holy crap, if it did not become one of my favorite movies.

After recently rewatching the movie, which inspired this newfound interest in writing my own weird pseudo-old-west novel, I also found out that True Grit was in fact a book itself. Who knew?! I haven’t read it yet but I’m working on getting a copy to read through as part of my “Research” before starting this next project.

Look at that, I think I just finished talking myself into making that my next project. Unless I can write two novels at once… Stephen King must be writing at least ten novels at any given moment, right? I can handle two.

Thanks for reading my rambling! Until next time, take care!

LIES beneath the sea chars

I won NaNoWriMo 2021!

I won NaNoWriMo on November 30th at 50,157 words! Just because I won doesn’t mean I’m stopping yet. I’ve revised my goal to 75,000 words(maybe more) and given myself until the end of December to complete my story Lies Beneath the Sea. Oh boy is this story a mess! I have so much revising and editing to do to make the story work once I finish up. Even so, I’m super excited to have completed the goal for November and proven to myself that I can actually still write something new. Then to further my excitement towards finishing this novel, my wonderful and supportive significant other drew my main crew of characters. I’m so lucky to have such a wonderful person in my life!

While I feel like I’m comfortably in the final third of this novel, I’m already thinking about what I want to write next! I’ve got a few exciting ideas that I’m really hoping to flesh out once I have some time. One of the ideas is actually a prequel to my Last Angel novel. It’s funny that I’ve never considered writing any sort of multi-book series. I tend to focus want focused, self-contained stories. However, this character has such a vivid back story that I’m really wanting to jump back into it.

Speaking of which, I’m participating in the PitMad event this year for my novel The Last Angel! Which happens to be tomorrow… I’m pretty nervous. I wrote out my short query tweets and scheduled them early so that I can just avoid Twitter all day and try not to send myself into a panic attack.  I really hope that I’m representing my novel well in these few brief sentences and that someone finds them engaging enough to give me a like. I know I’m going to spend all day tomorrow wondering what’s happening…

If for some reason you are an agent visiting my website after seeing my tweets… Hi… I hope we get to chat soon…

Until next time my friends!