Trying my best to make these monthly updates a habit, and clearly I'm failing at that! I've been busy this month though, which strangely helps. It makes me feel like I've got more to tell you than; "Did writing. Did more writing." So, let's dig in! Since my last update... Well, since my last 'official monthly update' was literally a year ago... Honestly, my consistency with these updates is embaressing at this point. Let's just look at the last couple of months though, shall we? I'm still chipping away at Changeling, although since Christmas it's been slow going. This last week I've taken a brief break to write a gift short story, but I can't say too much about that publicly for the time being. I've also been doing some more reading this month. I was lucky enough to get my hands on an Advanced Reader Copy of Rae Else's new book, Umbra, that I reviewed in a previous blog post. Plans for the coming month... More word count on Changeling. Honestly, at this point, I think I need to take what I have so far, and rewrite. It shouldn't set me back too much, but there's certain things I need to add to the opening chapters that, at this point, are hindering my progression. Having them added into the manuscript now should streamling the process moving forward, and I'm hopeful to have the final manuscript finished by the end of June. By the middle of next month, I should be able to share details about the gift short story I've written too. As I said, I can't say much right now because the recipient hasn't recived it, but I'm very proud of it. It only took me five days to write, and it seemed to appear on the page almost fully formed. I'm excited to share it. As for reading, I've got two more Arc's to review before the end of the month! 'Soul of the Sorceress' by Cassandra Diviak and 'The Simple Delivery' by Andrew Claydon. Both Arc's were obtained through Booksprout, and I'm looking forward to putting my experiances into reviews for both authors, so keep an eye out for those posts. Behind the scenes... Previously, I've been adding behind the scenes content to my blog posts, but moving forward I won't be doing that. Any behind the scenes snippets and sneak previews will be restricted to my Newsletter... which will be up soon!
It's something else I hope to have prepared within the next month (or possibly two) if I can figure out how to get it all working.
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Arista Holmes
I'm a writer in her thirties, who is based in the South East of England. Archives
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