Camp NaNoWriMo is done! I completed my
goals with a final word count of 90,417 words. In actuality
I wrote much more than that this month because I also worked on some
PTSD blog posts and other projects. My primary work this month was
Catch a Falling Star. I also worked on organizing my blog and
building a plan for a regular PTSD column. Finally I continued
working on my social media platform, reading, and I built a PTSD
Pinterest board to add to my collection. I will be taking May off of
writing challenges but I will be participating in JunoWriMo which has
a preset goal of 50K words. My plan is to write an anthology of 4-5
short stories that I can publish and offer for free as a sample of my
writing style.
I
usually blog about PTSD and if you come here for that don't be
discouraged by the different topic, this is what I do when I'm not
talking about the subject that fills every corner of my life. It
helps, a lot, to have something that I love to do and for me that's
writing love stories! Even my husband gets in on the action,
discussing books ideas, plots, and characters with me for hours. My
work is available for free right now, just check out my links above.
And make sure you make time for fun too!
Catcha Falling Star has been wrapped up with a bow and the first draft is
sitting on my kindle waiting for me to read it through. I have a
planned field trip to Washington DC this month with my daughters and
I will read it while I am there, taking notes on what I need to
change. Once I've done that I will begin the second revision, maybe
in July.
The
Compromise is done as well. It is a shorter book only hitting 40K
words. I've had so much fun writing it. I've migrated the first two
books into Scrivnener and I am revising and outlining them to prepare
them for publication. Also, as I mentioned in my last update, these
three books fall into the category of adult romance and I had to
decide how to advertise them. I have made a page for my blog that has
an adult warning when you enter it. It's called The Manic Writer:After Dark and will house any of my adult romance, and adult romance
reviews.
That's
my final update for CampNaNoWriMo! I've had a lot of fun challenging
myself with Camp in April and I am looking forward to June! If you
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