One Week Until Christmas Eve, Hannukah begins tomorrow night! I've got 4 and a half days until winter break. BRING IT! Here's what I've been doing since last week! My Next Quarter is Planned! I started planning my writing life 90 days at a time and I think I had pretty good success last quarter. It's hard to know what would have happened if I hadn't been without a laptop for a month (Actually I do know a little, more on that below), but I wrote a book, kept a dream diary, did some advertising, created a Tik Tok account, made some teasers, and blogged here much more frequently just to name a few. I set up my kanban board yesterday for the first Quarter of 2023! It looks like a lot, but it's actually a lot less than I planned for Q4. The blue is a social media goal (including my intent to keep posting here weekly.) The purple is editing The Things They Stole From Me, and the green is writing book 2 (which I will name drop below). Each green sticky is for 1,000 words which was really motivating during NaNoWriMo. The one lone green sticky that's in progress right now is to outline book 3 which I've been doing on and off for a while.
Overall, I'm really excited and hope I can get most of it done between January and the end of March! New Anchor Series Update! So remember a minute ago, where I questioned what my life would have been like if my computer hadn't died? Getting all my handwritten stuff into a manuscript on my computer has been a b*tch, but there's really nothing that can be done about it. Tedious, but it's helping me find places to add and tweak so I'm trying to not get too upset about it. In other news, I've been busy making teasers, working covers, and finding quotes that will be good for my social media goal. I've decided that the series title will be "Enemy from the North" which has, as usual been a "I don't hate it, but it doesn't make my heart sing" situation like the titles have been. I feel like I've been leaving bread crumbs about what this series will be about, but as spoiler free as I can make it, my female MC Leora has lived a unfortunate life and the only shining light in it is her boyfriend and fellow orphan, Ephraim. As the books continue, everything she thought she knew about her family that left her behind, the orphanage she lived in, Ephraim, and even the moral stance of the country she lives in begins to to unravel and is called into question. She's got a lot of growing to do. I've got ideas for 5 books but possibly a 6th. Book 1 is done, Book 2 is outlined and Book 3 I basically know what happens. 4,5, and 6 are kind of just a sentence in my brain but we got time for that. Book 1: The Things They Stole From Me Book 2: The Lies They Told Me Book 3: The Truth They Hid From Me Book 4: The Freedom They Denied Me Book 5: The People Most Dear to Me Book 6: ????Something with the color black because *redacted*) Also to be slightly cryptic, the "they" in each book varies, but is also kind of like a plot twist in the over arching series, because the Enemy From the North really isn't the only big bad here...uh oh I think I got carried away and said too much. Ideally, I'd like to have the first three written before I start even thinking about publishing book one. In my heart I'm hoping by the summer, but I also think that will have to do with the day job and if I'm actually able to compete at any Irish dance competitions In Q1 and Q2 because there's work that goes into being prepared for them. Right now It's look like at least April, but we shall see! This has gotten a scattered, but here have some things I made in Canva to hold you over until next week! Kay
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