Oh my goodness, April is almost over! I didn't realize it until about 4pm on the last day - I need to get my recap done! I was at the beach this morning, so blame that, I guess.
This month, I wrote 29,187 words and The Acros Raiders: Down in Flames is now at 92,262 words. Will I keep it up? God, I hope so. 30k to go!
I had a pretty busy month for a lot of everything. The first week, my grandpa passed away, so that started my month out at a slow crawl. He was my last grandparent left, so it's weird. Grief is a major theme in The Acros Raiders trilogy (and spoiler warning, almost all of my work) and I still stand by what Harland says about it:
“Listen, a lot of people will tell you it gets easier, but when you lose a loved one, that’s not how it works. Some days will just be better than others, you never stop feeling the pain. The shock goes away, but the sadness doesn’t. That doesn’t mean you can’t be happy. We have these little moments of happiness in our lives, they’re just as important as those moments of sadness."
Scotty is all about processing grief poorly. I bought a rose bush for grandpa and planted it. Gardening is how I try to process my grief. Scotty needs to stop killing people about it and start a community garden or something. My grandpa owned a print shop for a long time, it's where my parents met, actually. Printing is the family business, so he was one of the people I gave one of the first proof copies of The Acros Raiders: From the Ashes to. We lived in different states, so I'd try to call him every week and a few times he told me how he thought it was so cool to see a book with our last name on it. He seemed really proud of it and that motivates me even more to pursue this career.
Anyway, some happy stuff. My mom had a birthday this month and Max and I had our nine year anniversary, on the same day, because I'm an amazing daughter. I asked him out, which makes it worse because I knew what day it was. Max is a real cool guy. He's been the strongest supporter of me quitting work and pursuing writing full time which is the only support that matters because he's the breadwinning guy. My job also was super supportive about it because they paid me to write for two months! (I got laid off!) April was month two, so that's pretty relevant.
Sold some books at TWO events this month! I felt like I'd have more to say about the sales. I'm super pumped to wrap up draft one of book two. Nothing sells book one like book two, right?
While at the beach this morning, I messed up my right pointer finger and it's making typing hurt a lot. I also passed out for a few hours after getting home and feel like I might pass out again. I'm just spitting out excuses for why I might not write the rest of the day. It's 5pm now. Holding myself to these recaps, though.
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