Last report wordcount + chapter count/scene count:
1. Short story: 9988 words (first draft done and turned in to editor)
2. NOBODY’S LADY (NEVER VEIL 2) was returned to me this month and is ready for round one edits, but…
Current report WC + CC/ SC:
1. Short story: 9996 words (first round of revisions done and turned back in to publisher–I know, it seems like it barely changed, ha)–btw, I still haven’t been able to spill the beans on what this project is, but I hope I will be able to by this time next month!
2. …I haven’t even touched them yet.
WIP Issues This Month: Managing to work on my fiction writing or editing AT ALL.
Four things I learned this month in writing: 1. I love celebrating a finished project! It was fun to have my book on display at BookCon and feel a little like a “real author.”
2. Editing other authors’ manuscripts is so rewarding and I wish I could do it more often. (I mean, I could OFFER to do it, but I can only afford to take on my beta readers’ for free. The rest I have to take on as clients, and I wish I could find more.)
3. You can go a LONG time without drafting a new project somehow. 😦
4. I can never manage to figure out how to cram in a lot of business writing work and fiction writing work in the same day. Even taking breaks, I’m just spent by the end of each day.
What distracted me this month while writing: So much! First off, you can read about my first author signing and my NY/BookCon trip here. After I got back from that, I had non-stop work writing to do, for better and for worse. (Seriously, I’m so tired out each day from work writing, I don’t have the brain power to work on fun writing.) I got to share some good news for my NEVER VEIL SERIES (read here). You’ll also notice the fabulous art I commissioned in my new banner. (Read more about that here.) I’ve also been to the cinema a lot this month, and it was my mom’s birthday and some things were really stressing me out. Just… Yeah, next to no fiction work done. (I did finish editing another author’s manuscript, but that was a paying job, so I was able to make time for it. At least that was fun, though!)
Oh, my comic spec script I worked on last month got rejected. I’d keep trying to submit it places, but finding a comic book publisher that takes spec scripts from authors without an artist is nigh-impossible.
Goal for next month: I do not see myself drafting at all this month because my time is limited and I have NOBODY’S LADY (NEVER VEIL 2) round one revisions due at the end of the month. So whenever I actually have the time and brain power to work on my own projects, that will get my full attention. I also want to edit my friend’s manuscript whenever I can, so I’ll at least be working on that, too. I might get my second round of edits for my short story this month, too, although I don’t anticipate those being major changes. Still, alas, this summer may not be the time when I finally write another manuscript after all.
Amy McNulty 
Congratulations on the titles and release dates! So exciting. 🙂
I find drafting harder when I’m doing intensive edits on another writer’s book, too. It uses a completely different part of my writer’s brain!
Best of luck with the edits! ^_^
Thanks! Now it’s back to the waiting game. ;-;
Thank you–you too!
No worries. You have exciting editing work to do. You will draft again. 🙂 So much congratulations on BookCon! And I love the new artwork, too. ^_^
Ha, thanks. Sometimes I wonder, but… Surely the day will come again!
Thanks!
AWESOME!!! Congrats on the release dates and the exciting B&N news! I’ll be on the lookout for it in the next couple months, for sure! I’ll be sure to tweet you a picture of it when I find it 😀 WOO! That is so exciting!!!! Focusing on edits for your second book is important. Let that WIP simmer for a bit while you work on edits, then go full-force after. It’ll be a nice break from editing! Great work this month 😀
Thank you! Oh, yes, please–tweet a pic if you find it! 😉 It won’t be in every B&N, but I hope someone stumbles on it somewhere! You can search the “pick up in store” option to see if it’s stocked nearby, but my local one claims to stock it and I haven’t found it yet.
Yeah, the edits will have to get my focus this month! Thanks!
Way to go with the writing and edits! Super congrats on the B&N pick up 🙂
Have you approached agents with your comic script? You might have more luck with an agent who can put you in touch with an artist or who knows which houses accept scripts without art.
Happy writing and editing and all the things in July!
Thanks! 🙂 I have so much more to do, ha.
I haven’t found any agents who take non-artist writers, either. ;-; My former agent was supposed to look at but was never able to get to it.
Thanks, you too!