Okay, so work has been completely exhausting and I now understand why my mom complained about her job for so long, even when I didn't exactly believe her. I never imagined that I would be working in a factory assembling laundry dryers, especially not when I have both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree, but in this economy, I guess you take whatever you can get. The pay is pretty decent, but after a typical day (where I usually work between 9 and 14 hours), I am tired.
I have been falling behind on practically everything in my life. My DVR is about 2/3 filled with shows I have yet to watch, my physical TBR pile reaches my navel area (so, roughly 2.5 feet tall) and my digital TBR pile is even larger, and trying to work on writing and/or editing...my brain doesn't even want to function when I get home from work so that seems impossible. But I know I have to do it if I want to achieve my goal of being a published author.
The other huge issue was with my laptop. It was the one I bought before I entered college seven years ago, and it was close to dying on me, again. I saved up for the past two months and just now bought a new laptop...and it is wonderful so far. What is not wonderful...having to transfer all of my files and music, etc over so I can get back to work. For now I just have the music I listen to most and the manuscript files I actually need to be focusing on at this moment. So, with any luck, I'll be back to making progress on that front again.
I had my best friend from college, who is also an aspiring author, up for Memorial Day weekend and we had a blast. We went and saw Fast & Furious 6 and then saw Iron Man 3 (for a second time), and we also went to the local zoo, which was a blast. On Memorial Day the weather took a turn for the yucky, all cold and rainy, so we stayed at home and tried to work on doing more editing for our novels. Her editing is just a clean-up run through since she's already gone through the major editing issues. For my novel, on the other hand, there are a number of scenes that I need to elaborate on or clean up so it all makes more sense. So, I am doing a lot more writing.
She made it through somewhere between 20-30 pages...and I managed to add close to a 1,000 words to mine. It was not even close to what I was hoping to achieve, but it is also more than I've done in the past couple months. Also...this new computer is still in the stage of me trying to learn all of its features, and that makes it a pretty huge distraction.
Aside from adding to my novel, I did also manage to write out the summaries for the four book saga I plan to start writing this year for NaNoWriMo. I am really looking forward to it.
Which brings me to my NaNoWriMo plans for the remainder of 2013...or rather my writing plans that include NaNoWriMo. Anyway, I hope to be able to finish my edits for Project Death: Resurrection by mid-June. I have to finish it before the month is up, since my CreateSpace coupon expires then. Then, for Camp NaNoWriMo in July I will be working on the sequel, Project Death: Revelation. I need to have it basically written so I can work on editing it in the beginning of 2014 so it will be ready for publication next summer. Finally, for NaNoWriMo in November, I plan on writing the first book in my four book saga, The Life and Death of a Seer.
As I usually do leading up to a NaNo event, I will have a post that talks about the novel, perhaps a brief summary, and maybe even some discussion of the characters, and through the month of Camp or NaNo, I will have updates on the writing progress and process.
I hope to be able to post the good news at the end of June about the publication of Project Death: Resurrection. It is a story that came to me almost a decade ago and has been a great labor of love for me. To be able to see it available in both print and e-book will definitely be an amazing moment.
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