Dear Internet,
I’ve been up at Throbbing Cabin since Wednesday with some of my favorite ladies for a weekend retreat, which is turning out fabulously. There has been beach time, s’mores time, lots of reading and down time, not getting out of our jimjams time, and lots and lots of drinking time. Tomorrow we are going to photograph Val walking on water for GISWSHES before heading back to our respective households. It’s been a lovely break from the world and I’m feeling recharged and maybe, just maybe, reborn.
True to my promise, here is this months writing roundup.
Italicized is the original list. Regular text is add-ons. Bold is completion and totals.
Projects for July:
- Launch lisarabey.com finally – Completed July 8
- TheHusband got the website up and running pretty early on in the month, so yay! I spent some time adding more back content and moving the Ephemera and other fiction-y sections over to lisarabey.com. There are a few bits and pieces that still need to be done, but the biggest chunk of the project is completed.
- Plow through current library loans and ARCs from NetGalley and get reviews written
- Was not as productive on this as I had hoped, but it is the beginning of August and I’ve already surpassed last year’s totals on books read, so I’m calling this a win.
- Collate notes on the Edwardian mystery, continue with research, and get most of the structure sorted
- Words written: 2500
- I knocked out the first draft of the first chapter while at my retreat a week ago and started chapter two, but then LIFE happened and things have kind of stalled. I will be kickstarting this this week.
- Start fleshing out 45th parallel story
- Took a research trip up to The Headlands International Dark Sky Park.
- Finish or shelve in-progress short stories and submit completed ones
- Did not accomplish. Will work on next month
- Get Vol 1 of secret Kindle project completed and online
- This is turning out into a bigger project than I had originally envisioned. About the 1/4 of the way through and that’s already at 50 pages in the proper Kindle formatting. As I started, I realized that I was missing a lot of content to be added to the project, thus I went back and started on the back fill again. Going to shoot for end of August to have most of Vol 1 completed and edited.
- Continue note carding ideas / quotes / etc for future projects
- My note card box grows!
- Get LLC sorted out – Completed July 25
- LLC was finalized and I still need to do an entry on that process. I have secured a CPA; business checking and savings accounts opened, business credit card obtained, receipts kept, and domain has been purchased and is currently pointing to lisarabey.com. There are some minor work to be done, but the process is complete!
- Query/submit at least half a dozen pieces
- Two completed on July 11
- Status: Both rejected, boo.
- Blog writing count for July
- Words written: 22,097
- Number of posts: 36
August projects:
- Plow through current library loans and ARCs from NetGalley and get reviews written
- Collate notes on the Edwardian mystery, continue with research, and get most of the structure sorted
- Collate notes on the 45th parallel project and continue with research
- Research (aka read) stream of consciousness novels
- Finish or shelve in-progress short stories and submit completed ones; submit at least one a week
- Get most of Vol 1 of secret Kindle project formatted and edited
- Continue note carding ideas / quotes / etc for future projects
- Query/submit non-fiction pieces
- Blog writing count for July
xoxo,
Lisa
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