May the Forth be with you.*
Just getting that out there…
*Which is what would happen if Twinkle became a Star Wars fan. (If you “understood that reference”, you get cookies. Likely from the Dark Side, but still cookies.)
April 2016
Anyway! An ishness post for you today! (Because I have internet again, which calls for a huge celebration. Namely blogging.)
Here’s what I was up to this last month…
Writing
I did not in fact attempt Camp NaNo, for which I’m proud of me. I could definitely not have survived that. To anyone who even attempted it: I applaud you.
Funny story: Since Camp starts on April Fool’s Day, I pulled a prank on the fam, dramatically entering a room and announcing “I have decided . . . to do Camp NaNo.” (After repeatedly telling them not to let me do it, and that I didn’t WANT to, and that it would be very bad if I did.) They fell for it, too, since it’s just the sort of insane thing I would do (deciding ON THE FIRST DAY to do Camp, even when I said I wasn’t going to). It was rather hilarious. Don’t worry, I promptly said “April Fool” as soon as the stares-of-horror and face-palming had put in appropriate cameos. Then we all had a good laugh.
But that’s for what I didn’t do. So what did I do, you ask?
I wrote 2,000 ish words during April, which some may call puny but, frankly, given the state of my writer’s block and how little I’ve written this year, I will gladly take. 🙂
That was a bit of The Other Half of Everything, wherein Teague and Meridian FINALLY (after, like, a whole page…) meet, ever so briefly… I must continue the scene sometime.
I also randomly wrote a scene of The Invisible Mask. Which likely no one remembers, given that the last time I wrote in it was like a year or three ago. Very random, I tell you. Quite mysterious. I don’t know what the writing life is coming to.
Snippets
My poor Kenneth lad. ❤ And his day only gets worse! (If you think he gets a “quiet meal” then you’re as mistaken as Kenneth is.)
I’ve never written in first-person longer than a short story. I’ve discovered that unreliable narrators are fun. I adore being in Meridian’s brain. XD
Blogging
Around here:
- Return of the Ishness! {March 2016}
- Review: Songkeeper by Gillian Bronte Adams
- The Five Gems & Thaw Book Launch Party!
- Review: King’s Folly by Jill Williamson
On my book blog:
- Stands of Night {April 2016}
- Cover Love: Some 2016 Releases
- Design Update!
- A Spy’s Devotion by Melanie Dickerson
I also went on a graphic-making spree, updating some of my blog things… What think ye? 🙂 (Yes, you’re allowed to say you liked the old ones better; I’m just curious. ;))
I kind of got addicted to making graphics. I sometimes go overboard and then get it out of my system. 😛
(Honestly not 100% sure about this first one… but it’ll have to do for now.)
(New header for my book blog, The Page Dreamer. I may or may not be hopelessly in love with its new look.)
Reading
So… I hardly read anything this month. But, to be fair, King’s Folly was ginormous, so. 😉 I did at least love all the books I DID read, so that’s a plus. *nodnod*
Watching
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I’ve been watching an old Western show called The Deputy. It’s a lot of fun. 🙂 It’s about a Marshall named Simon Fry and his (reluctant and occasional) deputy, Clay McCord, both of whom are awesome and so much fun together. Because “buddy movies” are awesome especially when they annoy each other. 😉 (Also, Clay looks a lot like Dean Winchester. Just sayin’.)
Life
- You know how this post is called April Showers? Well it certainly rained a lot. And that leads to the next point…
- The biggest “thing” that happened in April was not having internet in the second half of it, for over two weeks, largely due to said rain. I got it back yesterday. I’m super behind on internet things, for which I apologize!
- I saw Toby Mac, Colton Dixon (yay!) and several other contemporary Christian music artists in concert together, which was a lot of fun!
- I’m sure other stuff happened by my mind is blank as to what the nature of said stuff may have been. I should keep better notes. But really, April went by faster than it had any right to. Seriously! The nerve of that month! Sheesh.
May Plans
I’m a bit in shock that it’s May. Like, “Excuse me? WE ARE A THIRD OF THE WAY INTO THE YEAR THIS IS NOT OKAY” kind of shock.
May-ish plans include:
- I have beta-reading to do. A LOT of beta-reading to do… Hopefully it will be fabulous and not involve as much procrastinating as usual.
- I must review The Beautiful Pretender by Melanie Dickerson, so watch for that. Spoiler: I loved it.
- I’m going to be joining in the Paper Crowns blog tour for Mirriam Neal’s book Paper Crowns which I beta-read back in the day, LOVED, and is now available! (*cue squeeing*) Check out the giveaway and tour stops, because it will be going all month long!
- I don’t know if I’ll get to see Captain America 3 or not but I’m very nervous/stressed about it. If I do see it, it will only be because Hawkeye and Bucky are the best of ever and I must watch every milisecond of film containing their precious selves. #TeamHawkeye #TeamBucky
- I want to figure out what I’m doing in my writing life because it’s a mess, I tell you. Pretty much all of my stories have decided they hate life and/or me, for one reason or another.
- I have lots of reading I want to do. ALL of the reading.
- Of course, life is going to be so insanely busy this month that I have a feeling it’s going to take one look at all my plans, laugh in their face(s) and proceed to utterly destroy them like a hurricane passing by an innocent-bystander bowl full of rainbow confetti. But. You know. Such is life.
Ellerion laughed his rumbling purr of a laugh, without the screech behind it. “And what would you ride then, Lord Achnor?” He purred the r‘s and there was mockery in his deep, dark voice.
Baz was startled. “You had a mother?”
The Road of a Writer 