A Chaotic Neutral

 June was definitely a month. I feel like I accomplished things, but also that I blinked and it was over, so I'm not sure where the whole month went. lol

I definitely bent my focus to working on the Tethers universe and charged through a bunch of world-building for it. I edited out a huge backlog, and finished up a commission. I also made the decision to close commissions for now because I really just want to work on my own stuff. I need the money, but I feel like I need to focus on my personal ideas more. 

Plans for July are to continue in much the same vein as June -- finish up short WIP pieces, edit A Tale of Two Geeks, worldbuild for Tethers, and if I can finally get their encounter mapped out, start writing arc one of Tethers. I've also got a massive amount of editing to do for Tethers, going back and updating the original fics so the language matches my worldbuilding now that Tethers is its own thing and not DND adjacent. 

July is shaping up to be a pretty boring month, creatively speaking, but sometimes boring is good. Sometimes boring gets you on the right track. And sometimes you get smacked in the face by a surprising idea so.... -fingers crossed- 

 Well, April was a whirlwind but the good kind of whirlwind. 

I think I actually accomplished everything I set out to do in April! I got back the feedback on Loaf at First Sight and finalized it. I'll probably release it as a free read. I finished both first chapters of Death Deferred and All Things Considered. I also completed a standalone short story featuring a genderfluid unicorn shifter and a human. Despite how busy it was IRL, I accomplished my goals. Yayyyy!

So. What to do in May, hmm? 

Let's see... my May goals will be to finish the rough first draft of Florian and Rhys' intro short story, the first time they meet. It's the prequel to the unfinished NaNo novel The Heist, and it's definitely a good starting point to introduce those characters. I'm about 2/3 of the way finished already so it's a reasonable goal for a month, too. 

Working on A Tale of Two Geeks is so tedious because of the revising, but I think if I break it up a bit, it'll be easier. So for May I'd like to knock out at least thirty pages of Revision. That's a page a day just about. I think it's do-able and tackling it little by little will get it done faster than ignoring it. lol

And lastly, I think I'd like to figure out what the next short story I write would be -- either something set in the Tethers universe this time, or something set in Apocalypse Nigh. Ah, decisions, decisions. But I'm excited and that's what matters! ^_~

 March is here, February is gone, and wow, 2022 is just zooming by faster than I could have expected. 

February was very successful for me in terms of things I accomplished. I knocked out the final draft of Out of the Woods, and right now, it's pretty much ready for market, as soon as I slap a cover on that bad boy. I don't know when or if I'm actually going to publish it, but it's nice to have that done. 

I also finished up Scars of Yesterday, and while I still need to edit for posting, it's done, and I no longer have that WIP hanging over my head. I also came to the executive decision to take a Transformers hiatus in hopes that taking a break will help the muses rest and revitalize for tackling the rest of my WIPs at a later date. I've been drifting away from TF fandom for months now, and it's been hard to stay inspired, but I hope a little hiatus followed by some binging of say TF Prime and MTMTE/LL will help reignite those muses. *fingers crossed*

I started working on the newest draft of the temporarily named A Tale of Two Geeks, and I'm hoping to have that finished by the end of March. I'm more or less rewriting it as I go -- some of the scenes have been completely revised, others just had some tweaking, I'm adding scenes and details as I go. I hope to get it in a state where I can then send it off to a couple of folks for some feedback about what else needs fixing. So that's my main goal for March. 

I'll be hosting another prompt fest this month, so I'm looking forward to that. 

I've also been jumping around a few original projects, working on first drafts for those. My completely self-indulgent fic "All Things Considered," another fantasy fic called "Death Deferred" featuring some characters from a Pathfinder campaign, and the introductory piece for Florian and Rhys from The Heist novel I worked on for NaNo 2021. I poke at all three here and there when I have the time. 

Here's hoping March will be equally productive! <3

 Jubilant June everyone! 

How did May go for me? Well, I tackled four out of five goals and that ain't bad! I feel mightily accomplished. Let's see if I can go five for five with the month of June, eh? 

1. Finish the rough draft of my submission to the Monster Lovers anthology
2. Finish my The Arcana oneshot where Nadia pegs Julian
3. Finish at least one chapter of Scars of Yesterday
4. Add at least five pages of new content to Out of the Woods
5. Write at least one ficlet/oneshot in my Tethers universe

A slightly different type of to-do list for June, but more in line with where the muses have been as of late, so here's hoping I can snag a very successful month this time around. 

June's pretty busy on the Real Life front, too, so if I can squeeze all of this out despite that, I'll be one happy writer. ^_^