My Shelf-ish Week #67

What I've Been Writing:

I haven't been keeping to my 1,000-word-per-day writing mission, but I am still making progress on Night Giver! We're at 148,000 words now, and I actually think we're nearing the final battle scene. Then, we need a conclusion, and yay...the rough draft just might be done and ready to move on to editing. I am so ready to move on to editing.

What I've Been Reading:

So I am not letting myself read anything until I've finished writing Night Giver's rough draft, which means nothing new has been read in the past two weeks.

What I've Been Stacking on my Shelves:

I received two books in the past two weeks. I got FairyLoot's To Down a Witch through Mercari. And I got the leatherbound version of Bloody Black from the author through TikTok. I think a flood of backorders will be coming in during the next few weeks, though.

My Shelf-ish Week #66

 What I’ve Been Writing:

So… I didn’t make my goal of finishing my story by the end of August. #Sadness. Which means, new goal. Starting at the beginning of September, I’ve been committed to not-going-to-bed until I have a thousand words written each day. And it’s been working. Feels like my flow may actually be returning.  Hopefully, anyway. The story is at 137,000 words right now.

What I’ve been Reading: 

I’m still working on the same book I was trying to get through two weeks ago.  Not making much progress. 

What I’ve Been Putting on My Shelves: 

I’ve gotten three awesome books in the past week. Say hello to Storm Caller, The Silversmith, and The Knave and the Moon.  Last week, I picked up the Bookish Box edition to Sea of Charms, and I had to have a copy of Spark of the Everflame, Glow of the Everflame, and Heat of the Everflame.

My Shelf-ish Week #65

 What I've Been Writing:

I'm ashamed to report that I'm not meeting my goal. I only got about 2,000 words written this week. I was hoping to crank out 2k a day. But real life, man... It's been dragging me down like crazy. It was the first full week of school for the kiddos, but actually, that went pretty smoothly. I'm gonna blame the day job for all my stress. There have been so many changes and extra work recently, and it's taken up so much mental space that I feel too brain dead for a creative writing flow afterward. And writing is my happy place. So I'm just feeling worse and worse. It's all made me realize what an amazing and supportive husband I have, though. At least he (aka: my other happy place) is keeping me somewhat together. Needless to say, this week was a low week. I'm getting tired of low weeks. Really ready for things to start looking up again. And oh yes, sorry. I'm supposed to be talking about my story. It's at 129,000 words right now. Sadly, it still feels like there's a lot left to tell. My ideas to tie it up keep morphing and changing and growing longer. So...yeah. There's that too. Here's hoping next week is better.

What I've Been Reading:

I'm working my way through a book that I might not finish reading. I probably should, though. I bet I'm just struggling because other stuff is making me feel cruddy. That's not the poor book's fault.

What I've Been Stacking on my Shelves:

I've made a plan to buy fewer books...and then I bought three more books to console myself over that decision. But at least these were super cheap--three brand new paperbacks for less than $8 altogether, y'all. Who could say no to that? Anyway, I might not be getting as many new books in the future... starting in 2027.  Some cool shit still showed up in my mailbox this week, though! This is what I received:

• Strawberry Patch Pancake House (from TikTok)
• Lights Out (FairyLoot)
• Caught Up (FairyLoot)
• Game on (FairyLoot)
• Immortal Rose (Amazon)
• The Poison Daughter (Amazon - Most excited to read!)

And that's been my week. Sorry for all the personal TMI. I just needed to unload some of the ugh from my head.