September is Over and I'm Not Ready

September is over and all I can think right now is "Why? What? When did this happen. It's October? NaNo is in 31 days?! I'M NOT READY! Make it stop!"

Or something along those lines.

Posts This Month:

• Multi Book Review: Trouble Making Boys//The Raven Boys, Six of Crows and The False Prince
  
• The Ultimate Guide To Being Awesome 
  
• Series Review: The Lunar Chronicles
  
• Snippets and Writing Update
  
•  My Fall TBR Pile
  
• Reading and Writing in Fall
  
• It. Is. COOKIE TIME! 
  
  I also reached 8,000 page views which is exciting.

Writing: 


My Sleeping Beauty rewrite is moving along quite nicely.

Ok, no I lied. I start 3 first drafts so far. The first one (as mentioned in August in Review), I started before the sci-fi version idea thingy...
I got as far as the second chapter, a total of 4, 854 words.

AFTER the space thing, (this month) I wrote FOUR chapters, a total of 12,073 words.

And the I decided that I needed move and change a lot of things before I started rewriting it. (A complete read through with notes, character work, world building etc.)
This stage really amused me, because I copied and pasted my first draft and read through the entire thing, making comments on the side using Word's comment tool.

The comments ranged from helpful/professional....

(Ex: Grant's last name was changed.)

To helpful, but slightly less professional...

(Ex: Mutton Head! Yes you. Don't forget that you changed his last name! TWICE)

Helpful, but negative:

Ex: This paragraph is confusing. Rewrite.

And unhelpful and negative, but highly amusing.

Ex: Don't quite your day job. Oh, wait you are already quitting your day job...Don't quit your next day job

Also Ex: MY EYEBALLS ARE CRYING AND IT IS YOUR FAULT



And then I started my current second draft. I am now towards the middle of the second chapter, at    6,346 words.


The read through was helpful though. I HATED the first three chapters (probably because I have written it five times now.)

But once I got past that, there was less *cringe* and more *Muwahaha this is beautiful*





I also started typing out a detailed plot for my NaNoWriMo Project, with Chapter outlines and some character development, so that is a plus. 


Books This Month: 

• Crooked Kingdom
  
• Shadow and Bone
  
• Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
  
• The Magic Thief
  
  Which is a measly 4 books. I am crying on the inside right now. I meant to read so much more! (There are still three more days...maybe I'll go and read 16 books and get the same amount as last month....)

OTHER THINGS

• Twinning's changed their Earl Grey design and I had a tiny freak out.  
• I have consumed roughly six cups of tea/coffee on this most recent draft...(Which is roughly* 3 cups per chapter. What is wrong with me?) 

So how was your month?

-MK-



*I originally spelled this "Ruffly" and sat there for three minutes staring at it.
"It's wrong, I'm sure of it."

Oh wait!