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May Results and June Goals

Here we are as one month wraps up and another begins. May was a productive month (for the most part). Here’s how I did:

Results from May:

  • Continue Ghost House Heart
    • 443 words added
  • Start editing previous books in the series.
    • I started with book one and got a total of 19,911 words (more about the editing process later)
  • Write 30,000 words of anything.
    • Completed the May Blog Challenge in the 31 days I set forth to do it: 3,050
    • Typed up a handwritten short story from February: 3626

Total: 27,030

Goals for June:

  • FInish Edits on Book One of the Series
    • I’m about 20% through and have a direction, all I need is time to sit down and actually do the work.
  • Write one short story
    • With editing going on, I find I need to stay focused in that world for the time being. Short stories don’t take me out for too long and let me write through the angst of editing.
  • Prep Ghost House Heart for Continuation in July
    • May wasn’t a good month to continue the novel, so I’m pushing it off until the next session of Camp NaNoWriMo in July.
  • Continue to Blog
    • I have some great ideas for June. Certain things are coming back.

June is here and I have a lot of goals to smash. Wish me luck!

You Want to Be a Writer? Act Like One

These past few weeks, the entire month of February, has been strange for me. I had a tonsillectomy on the 31st of January and practically all of February was spent in bed recovering, or scrambling to get homework done as my semester for my bachelors program was winding down.

Yes, I know, I’m excellent at scheduling things and procrastination.

This strange time warp (thank you liquid Lortab for keeping the pain at bay and helping me catch up on much needed sleep, even if the nightmares were terrifying) left little time for me to write, and write coherently.

I was back at work for three days before this first cold whammied me into another week of bed rest. But it gave me a little more time to think and process, and yes, write!

I’ve been listening to a few new podcasts lately, all about writing and being a writer. There were a few that talked about whether or not a writer can call themselves a writer and what the criteria was or should be. Should you have a book published? A famous column in a newspaper? Can you be called a writer if only one other person, or no one has read any works?

I have always called myself a writer. I’ve started and finished several novels, short stories, plays and poems, not to mention blog posts and forum posts here and there. As far as I am concerned, I am a writer.

But over these past few months, I haven’t really been acting like a writer. I haven’t had that drive to finish something, or post something, or even think about writing in the least.

I am very pleased to say that today for the first time in a long while, I pulled out a short story that I wrote years ago and edited it. I’m not going to lie, I struggled to get motivated, to actually edit and not get distracted by the internet, or flash games, or more podcasts and posts about writing, but once I got into it and started, it was much easier.

I am a writer, and I am going to act like it.

Starting Something New

Unfortunately, my blog has become somewhat neglected lately. 

I am going to fix that. 

Starting tomorrow, I am going to write and post something creative daily. 

Stay tuned for more!