I know I promised to write another blog post before the end of 2020, but the editing got away from me yesterday and then . . . well, New Years Eve happened, lol.
Anyway, as of right now I’ve only edited one more chapter in Evercrown than my last post on my socials, but it was as long as two — I wish y’all could’ve seen my face when I read the page count — and I think that today’s going to be a rest day. However, the writing will continue tomorrow and thereafter as I start the next cycle. Because January starts in a weird spot of the week for me, I decided to extend my ultimate week until the fifth — I usually begin writing on Tuesday’s anyway and it doesn’t cost me any days in the next ultimate week. So Saturday, Sunday, and maybe Monday evening are going to be filled with editing mixed with writing new ideas or fleshing out scenes that’ve randomly started coming my way.
I get these visions (the non-magical kind) of enormous supernatural battles between individuals, dialogue between characters I don’t know, budding romances and friendships, found families, grief, death — everything that makes for the best stories. But it’s weird how this stuff just came from nowhere — well, I say nowhere, but I’ve been binging My Hero Academia, and it’s rife with all the above lol. But even considering that, I’ve started watching and reading a bunch of other new things lately — Sweet Home, iZombie, The Expanse, Clockwork Orange (novel), & A Clash of Kings (novel) — but they haven’t inspired any new visions that I know of. I don’t know. Maybe it has something to do with the Viking war music chants I listen to to put me in a pagan mood for ritual/magical scenes in my books — they do just as well to put me in fight-mode lol.
Regardless of how my weird brain works, the new year brings me closer to finishing Project Murder House (my second ever novel) and getting that much closer to completion in Our Holy Mother: Evercrown and Project Apocalypse — not to mention starting another round of edits with TSOC. Gosh I miss that thing — it’s like my baby moved out to college. And, with the addition of a few new alpha-readers, maybe I can reach my goal even faster. Who knows.
Right, so I’m chillaxin’ today, gonna edit Evercrown and do a little world-building Sat., Sun., and maybe Mon., and then continue on like nothing happened while screaming at the heavens about ALL the things that happened — sounds like a plan to me. Alright, I’ll see y’all later — happy New Year, keep bein’ you, strive for a goal, work toward it, and earn your place as the best artist possible. Love y’all — bye!