Status Report for April, 2025
May. 1st, 2025 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuftearsIt has been a distracted month for writing! I meant to be working on Alien Tastes, but instead I wound up with several new projects:
The Scofflaw Villainess, a novel about a woman who flees her arranged marriage to a Duke (her spendthrift parents need the dowry) to become a thief and what happens thereafter.
The Last of Her Kind, a short story inspired by a dream about a woman who was the last of her kind... And her greatest fear: the arrival of a ship full of children visiting for a field trip. Yes. I have some odd dreams but that one stuck with me and I had to write it.
Tally:
Coming up next: treating myself to Mexican food for Cinco de Mayo, a physical exam shortly thereafter, and very likely making myself a hamburger for Memorial Day.
I expect to keep on working on Scofflaw Villainess in one form or another. And I'll try to polish up Last of Her Kind and then think about what to actually do with it as a short story--I mean, it'd make sense to send it out somewhere for publication, right? Or share it here in some form.
Hope all of you had good Aprils out there, or at least as good as circumstances permit!
The Scofflaw Villainess, a novel about a woman who flees her arranged marriage to a Duke (her spendthrift parents need the dowry) to become a thief and what happens thereafter.
The Last of Her Kind, a short story inspired by a dream about a woman who was the last of her kind... And her greatest fear: the arrival of a ship full of children visiting for a field trip. Yes. I have some odd dreams but that one stuck with me and I had to write it.
Tally:
- 2082 words on Alien Tastes
- much time spent outlining Scofflaw Villainess
- 4951 words on a short story set in the Scofflaw Villainess universe
- And I finished the first draft of Last of Her Kind, weighing in at 6913 words.
- Oh, and I took some time to do up final pencils and start inking on a Treasure Island cover picture for Archangel Beth!
Coming up next: treating myself to Mexican food for Cinco de Mayo, a physical exam shortly thereafter, and very likely making myself a hamburger for Memorial Day.
I expect to keep on working on Scofflaw Villainess in one form or another. And I'll try to polish up Last of Her Kind and then think about what to actually do with it as a short story--I mean, it'd make sense to send it out somewhere for publication, right? Or share it here in some form.
Hope all of you had good Aprils out there, or at least as good as circumstances permit!
