March Wrap-Up

Hey all, Sam here.

Wow, well we are already finished with another month, which is always an interesting experience. This year continues to somehow both drag so slowly while also speeding past. Like, how are we already in the fourth month of the year? But also, how has it ONLY been three full months so far?

Anyway, I don’t want to waste a lot of time here with my intro, but I will say that David and I did spend about a week playing Split Fiction after work and on our days off, and oh my goodness, that was such a fun game. We’ll try to have a review up sometime soon, but I wanted to mention it here because I don’t exactly have a watching or gaming section in these wrap-ups. I used to do a “What I’m Watching” segment when I did weekly wrap-ups, but it was a bit tedious tracking all my reading and watching and playing and doing, so I scaled back quite a bit.

Speaking of watches, we just finished season 2 of “Solo Leveling” last night — we binge-watched both seasons in like four days — and holy smokes, they best be giving us a season 3 and a season 4, because that will probably be what we need to complete the story in show form.

Okay, enough, let’s get into the rest of the monthly wrap-up.

Reading

All right, well March was a pretty darn good reading month. I completed 12 books, which is awesome, but don’t ask me to pick favorites because I read too many highly anticipated books.

The Witch and His Crow by Ben Alderson — 4.5 stars

Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis — 3.5 stars

Critical Role: Vox Machina – Stories Untold by Rebecca Coffindaffer, Sam Maggs, Rory Power, Sarah Glenn Marsh, Aabria Iyengar, Jess Barber, Martin Cahill, Kendra Wells, Nibedita Sen, and Izzy Wasserstein — 5 stars

Animorphs #6: The Capture by K.A. Applegate and Chrise Grine — 5 stars

The Winter Goddess by Megan Barnard — 4 stars

Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd by Delilah S Dawson — 5 stars

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall — 4.5 stars

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins — 5 stars

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn — 5 stars

Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson — 4 stars

A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene — 4 stars

Di-Curious by Erin Branch — 4.5 stars

I will work on getting reviews up for as many of these books as I can manage, because I also have my January and February reads to review as well. If I can stay focused then I’ll just be able to schedule out a few weeks worth of content, which would be really cool.

Writing

I spent at least 50 hours in the month of March daydreaming and mentally plotting my writing projects, which included some writing, and some jotting down thoughts and ideas. And I know that daydreaming or jotting down little notes on note cards or in notebooks isn’t really writing, but it’s at least getting me focused on thinking creatively pretty much every day, which is better than nothing.

My hope is to spend a bit more time in April actually putting the words on the page. I am working on a novel and a novella, and I honestly think I can get the rough draft of the novella finished this month. I think I only need another 10-15k to finish it, which seems very doable for a month of writing sessions.

Blogging

I actually managed to do a little more blogging in March than in previous months. I think I had….four (?)… posts. Yes, there were four posts in March……which isn’t quite the two posts a month I dreamed of when I set my goals for the year, but it’s at least progress.

Considering I only had two posts in January and two posts in February, March was an improvement, so that’s something.

Let’s see…I posted my February Wrap-Up, and an ARC review for The Witch and His Crow by Ben Alderson, then there was a Cover Reveal for Dear Reader by Viktoria Capek, and finally a trip down memory lane by going over my Ten Most Viewed Posts So Far.

I have a bunch of book reviews drafted and plan to take some time and finish writing them, so hopefully there will be even more blog posts coming for the month of April.

Trips/Conventions

We only have one month to go until our trip back to Ohio to visit my mom for a few days, and we’ve been figuring out when a lot of the restaurants and such open (we’re going to stay along Lake Erie and there are a number of seasonal businesses there) and thankfully most of the places we were hoping to visit will be open. It should be a fun trip.

We’re also getting ready for Gen Con in August. We’ve put in our vacation requests at work and are busy researching hotel options so we can get that booked sooner rather than later.

Other than that we haven’t really done much when it comes to trips, but since we’re finally starting to reach spring weather we should be able to start planning little day trips or overnight trips to see some more sights.

All right, well that is it from me for today. I hope you had a productive month of March. Let me know some of the cool stuff you did last month because I’d love to hear about it. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I’ll be back soon with more geeky content.