Monthly Roundup: April 2016

2016 is already over a third finished! It’s going by quickly.

Writing:

This month, most of my work was on the Shattered Minds structural re-edit. At the end of March, I was 49,115 words through it, and at the end of April I was at 89,439 words (10 days into May and it currently stands at 103,498 and I’m on the LAST CHAPTER and procrastinating by writing this post). I think this section of the manuscript needed fewer large overhauls than the beginning, but a lot still changed. I also wrote the grand total of 570 words of another project and 3271 words of nonfiction. If I half the editing word count, then in April I wrote about 22,493 for a yearly total so far of 119,355 words.

This month I had no school visits and no freelance work.

Travel and life:

Woohoo, Mauritius! I put up some photos of my trip a little while ago here. At the very end of the month, I also went to Edinburgh to see the Beltane fire festival with Elizabeth May.

Life slowed down a bit in April. I took 13 days off completely this month, which is how much I took off the previous 3 months combined. I needed that bit of rest and lazing around reading, swimming, and exploring the island. It was a nice breather before everything gears up towards publication.

Plans for next month:

I plan to finish Shattered Minds edits, edit Masquerade, proof Pantomime again for the paperback re-release in November, try and squeeze in some words on a collaborative project, and write more guest posts/essays for False Hearts publication. I’ve signed up for a free 2 week screenwriting class through Future Learn and the University of East Anglia and will complete that. I have one school visit scheduled so far, and me and my husband also have to start working on getting our flat ready to sell or rent, as we’ll possibly be relocating later in the summer. May and June are both going to be incredibly busy, but let’s bring it on.