Hey y’all! I didn’t forget to update my blog within a week —give or take —it must be a sign of the end, lol.
But seriously, I have embarrassing news . . . I didn’t meet my goals I set in the previous update. I came really close — and would’ve been able to finish — but Sunday was Mother’s Day, and my mom’s more important than writing a book no matter how much I love this story. So, as it stands, TSOC part 9 is unfinished and Evercrown chapter 15 is still not edited, but this is for a good reason — I discovered my limits.
I thought I could do all that at once without planning out each and every single day — I couldn’t. I thought I could handle juggling multiple stories on the precipice — I couldn’t. So, while this is a failure, all failures teach to those are willing to listen. I now know that I can’t juggle that much at once and expect to reach my goals without dogmatic scheduling and fierce determination and sacrifice.
In the meantime, I had to stop working on TSOC part 9 because I still hadn’t rewritten part 4 and 5 like I needed to, and one of my beatareaders was on point with the schedule — they got to part 4 before I did, lol. So, I had to set the end of my novel aside and concentrate on part 4 for a week . . . and I got it done! Which brings me to today.
Last week I completely rewrote and edited part 4, and this week I’ll be tackling the new part 5. The beautiful part? I just finished rewriting the ending of part 5 moments before composing this update and will be more than able to edit it tomorrow! It blew by so fast, I don’t even know how it happened. So, the rest of today will be spent editing a few things in part 6, spending more time on my socials, and possibly writing the first short story in Project Apocalypse — but we’ll see how things go. And after that, I plan on moving forward with working on TSOC until I hit the new part 8 because that’s where I really need to get it edited to draft 2. Once there, I should fall back into my normal rhythm of writing Evercrown and editing those chapters alongside TSOC — hopefully I can work in time to write a short story at least every other week and edit that alongside Evercrown and TSOC . . . phew, I’m gonna be a busy bee, lol.
Alright, y’all, that’s gonna be it from me! Keep an eye on my socials to see the goings-on, watch out for more updates, and don’t forget that any of you can submit to be betareaders if you like one of my available stories! Bye!