October! It’s the start of the spooky season and also NaNoWriMo preparations. But first, how did I do last month?
September, I Hardly Knew Ye
Load the paperback of All Rocs.I did this! And then I did it again, because somehow I neglected to add the copyright page to the manuscript the first time I formatted it. (This just proves there’s always a new way to screw things up!)- Finish the rough draft of the next Penelope Standing cozy mystery. Well… It’s closer, but I still have at least 10k to go. Hopefully that will happen this week.
Continue twice weekly release schedule on Kindle Vella for The Ghostwriting Blues.I finished loading the rest of the novel.Stretch goal: edit the mermaid story and send it off to the anthology. (I’m still on the fence about this one — I don’t write a lot of short stories, and maybe this story is terrible. But maybe it’s okay. Who knows? But really, the worst they can do is reject me, so I should do it.)I did this!
I’ve also been slowly getting back into the space opera serial on Vella. I’m giving myself an A for September. (As previously established, I’m an easy grader.)
October Goals
- Finish the rough draft of the next Penelope Standing cozy mystery.
- Outline the next book of The Portal Storms. (I’ll be writing this book during NaNoWriMo and I’d like to continue my journey from pantser to planner.)
- Add weekly episodes on the space opera serial, and have a few in reserve so I don’t have to write any during November.
- Go through the published Penelope Standing books and create a series bible.
- Stretch goals: new short stories for Penelope Standing and The Portal Storms to eventually give to my newsletter subscribers.
Obligatory Pet Photo
