Challenge Completed! Clarion Write-a-thon Week 6.

I’ve written 30,000 words in the last six weeks, thanks to the Clarion Write-a-thon. I’m past the halfway point of my steampunk YA novel, I’ve progressed a bunch of other writing projects, and I’ve kept up the reasonable momentum of this year. Nothing is FINISHED though, so I’m still feeling a bit aimless.

Still before I disappear into Olympics fever (somehow we got talked into an opening ceremony party this afternoon, have no idea how that happened), it’s important to stop and celebrate what I did achieve. I’m at over 90,000 words of fiction for the year. I’m doing great.

My plan for the next couple of weeks is to not put any pressure on myself writing-wise in order to focus on some spring cleaning, party planning for a certain little girl who is turning three early in August, and to allow myself the research time I’ve been craving for this book. Victoriana reading ahoy! Among other things, I’m planning to finally get around to Rebecca.

I’ve been enjoying writing my Where Are the Wonder Women posts and have decided to tackle one of the more complex and entwined collections of characterisation/backstory involving female superheroics with one big, glorious Batweek starting on Monday and featuring Batwoman, Catwoman, Huntress, Robin and Batgirl.

So that will do to be going on with.

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Thanks everyone who sponsored me during the Clarion Write-a-thon! It’s not too late to Paypal a small donation to help the running costs of the Clarion writers workshops, either in my name or that of some other participant.