July Camp Nano:
Current word count: 1,152
Goal word count: 30,000
What's happening: Turns out that Jonathan (love interest) and Jack (partner in the work sense of Veronica) are bros. Also, the paranormal community around the coffee shop is Not Happy about the mystical, magical new coffee blend. Alison wants nothing to do with this - she just wants to go on her date already, dangit.
June Round-Up:
Words written YTD: 30,429 on one and a half projects (Paranormal Investigations novels and a prequel short story that didn't really go where I wanted it to)
Things accomplished in fiction: see above
Writer-ly things accomplished: Decided that the short story wasn't going to do what I needed it to do, and that I wasn't in a good place to keep going with it at the moment. Picked up the proverbial pen for the second Camp Nano of the year, and I'm planning to keep my word count goal where it is - it'll be good practice for November.
New books read: Waking Up in Vegas (Incryptid short story by Seanan McGuire, which remains so much fun); Night Owls (urban fantasy I picked up on a whim - other than an unnecessary amount of head hopping, pretty solid); Hamilton, the Revolution (why yes, I have fallen into the hole that is Hamilton fandom, why do you ask?); Lumberjanes Volume 1 (so cute, and with enough "what the hell?" going on to keep things interesting); No Love Lost (Weather Warden short story that I hadn't known existed previously - kinda meh, to be honest); The Fifth Season (nominated for a Hugo, and so far, my front-runner); Stage of Fools (October Daye short story, courtesy of Seanan McGuire's Patreon)
Old books re-read: The Long Earth, The Long War, and The Long Mars (sci-fi collaborations by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, read to be caught up for the two new ones I hadn't read yet); Ill Wind (Weather Wardens book one, because sometimes you just need somewhat trashy romance with djinn and weather magic); Kitty and the Midnight Hour (see previous, only replace djinn with werewolves); Ms. Marvel Volume 1 (picked up the other two volumes in trade paperbacks and decided to re-read volume 1, as I hadn't looked at it since last year's Hugo nominations).
Q2 Check-In:
- Complete draft of book 2 of Paranormal Investigations
- Due: March 31, 2016
- Q1 status: I should really restate this as "fill in the gap between books 1 and 2 of Paranormal Investigations", and it's still in process.
- New due date: July 31, 2016
- Q2 status: This is the goal for this Camp Nano, so we'll see if we can actually finish filling the gap this month.
- Complete draft of Church of Books
- Due: September 30, 2016
- Q1 status: I haven't even touched this one in a while. I'll keep the date as is for now.
- Q2 status: Same as Q1
- Complete edit of Paranormal Investigations
- Due: December 31, 2016
- Q1 status: In process
- Q2 status: In process
- Complete draft of one of the works started for a Nano
- Due: December 31, 2016
- Q1 status: In process, as Paranormal Investigations started as a Nano
- Q2 status: In process, looking better with each day of sitting and actually getting some words on the dang page
- Complete at least one Nano
- Due: November 30, 2016
- Q1 status: COMPLETE!
- Q2 status: Trying for number 2!
- Submit at least one story for publication
- Due: December 31, 2016
- Q1 status: I have ideas, ever so many ideas...keeping the date as is for now.
- Q2 status: I may come back to the short story I was fiddling with post-Camp Nano, or I may try for something completely different. Who knows? Not me!
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