Boy are we batting a thousand or what this month being 5 DAYS LATE BUT YOU KNOW WHAAAAT tough shit I’m tired. I’ve been working but its been busy and this is my first break day in like 3 weeks probably yaHOO
NEW MONTH SAME RULES LETS GET CRACKING AND MAYBE START SOMETHING NEW THIS MONTH~
- 500-1000 words a day
- weekends are skippable
- don’t miss more than 3-5 per month
- editing doesn’t penalise
I’m going to try and see if this month I can try and combo editing & chipping away at drafts while also writing something new because I have a lot of really fun new shit i wanna write buuuut I also have a lot of guys sitting in the wings in need of a look-over. We’ll see we’ll see~
MAY 2025 PROGRESS:
- MAY 01: ~EDITING~
- MAY 02:
- MAY 03:
- MAY 04:
- MAY 05: ~EDITING~
- MAY 06:
- May 07:
- MAY 08: TAKE OUT — 845
- MAY 09: TAKE OUT — 412
- MAY 10: TAKE OUT — 396
- MAY 11: ~EDITING~
- MAY 12: TAKE OUT — 870
- MAY 13: TAKE OUT — 810
- MAY 14: TAKE OUT — 712
- MAY 15: ~EDITING~
- MAY 16: ~EDITING~
- MAY 17:
- MAY 18:
- MAY 19: ~EDITING~
- MAY 20: DRAGON’S BREATH — 477
- AUGUSTINE CH3 — 80
- MAY 22: AUGUSTINE CH3 — 672
- MAY 23:
- May 24:
- MAY 25:
- MAY 26:
- May 27:
- MAY 28: AUGUSTINE CH3 — 622
- May 29:
- May 30: ~EDITING~
- MAY 31:
TOTAL WORD COUNT: 5,896
MAY 05
So I’m thinking this month I’d really like to:
- Finish TAKE OUT
- Write AUGUSTINE CH3
- Write NARCISSUS
- Edit DRAGON’s BREATH
I don’t fully know if I’ll get through all of it but those are the plans going into May~ (Picture me sweating because I know we’re already 5 days into May BUT HEY;;)
MAY 18
So I finished my run of TAKE OUT yesterday… heheheh…. yes it DID take a bit longer than I hoped but wow 80,353 words later and feeling really happy about it. I’m reaping the rewards today and doing some re-reading of this bad boy (and a couple more drafts of things to decide where my brain’s going next~)
It will likely be AUGUSTINE CH3 because Work but after that I’m deciding between: Farewell Tour, Dragon’s Breath or Narcissus… hmhmhmmmm~
May 20
Sometimes…. you look at an older draft of something and your brain, before you’re even a few sentences in goes–nopenope nuh uh. I get what you were doing here but this is not it–
and then you start the new draft without even finishing the reread LOL
Anyways, we’re working on a new more horror-esque version of Dragon’s Breath that feels… idk stronger already but maybe that’s just me. Some things just feel way stronger on a second draft.. like leaps and bounds over the first.
I’m honestly reminded of this quote.
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
— Terry Pratchett
MAY 30
Sometimes…. um… editing is just spending the day rereading an old draft ok?
Anyway there’s a story i wrote that might actually be 2 stories… so i’m carefully & surgically pulling them apart…
TL;DR…. there might be 2 horny dragon/knight/royal stories in the works because I can’t make up my mind and maybe it doesn’t matter and we’re giving people both chocolate and vanilla cake all at once.
The analogy makes sense in my brain just go with me on this.
OVERALL THORTS
WELL. It’s been a tough month for writing but I think thats just going to happen when you’re in the middle of editing/finishing/switching projects. Things get a little tangled. I got a bit tired this month haha. April really took it out of me this time around with the back-to-back cons so I took it a bit easier–AND i actually finished a BIG PROJECT.
Folks. TAKE OUT wound up being 80,353 words.
I’m so unbelievably proud of myself finishing such a big project… in what… 6-8 months? Idk feeling pretty badass about it. I’m eager to step into bigger prose/story projects next year. I’m ready to bounce back after drowning for so long.
Cheers. Lets Kick it.