From my recent not existing posts, it seems that I’ve taken an expected month of holiday.
April flew by and, without realizing it, I was swallowed whole by the routine and the fatigue.
I want to assure you that I’m doing another attempt to organize my whole life and writing habit and space. If I’m lucky, I’m at least on the right path to get there.
I thought then, that my first and last post of the month would be an update regarding my reading and writing, mostly because there are some changes.
As for my WIP, the good news is that I keep going on writing every day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but at least it stays as a habit.
The biggest change I was talking about happened exactly about writing. Thinking about on what could optimize my time and my writing, I asked myself what was the one thing I always have with me. The reply was pretty obvious: my phone. As usual, you never notice the little things next to you and you bang your head senseless trying to find the solution that had been there from the very beginning.
Following there is the phase in which you feel the biggest idiot on Earth and then you move on!
All these words to say that I’ve started to use google drive on my phone.
I shared with my work pc the files containing my WIP, my blog posts, and the project in Italian that now took a final direction: fairytales (they’re set in my fantasy world but they’re just, well, fairytales!). I shared as well a couple of other files that will help me with the writing; wherever I’ll go, my babies will be with me.
I just got two big problems:
One – I don’t know yet where to place my plotting and my researching. This means that the Hunter Journal’s project is on hold, although I’m taking notes of everything I notice in the streets.
Also, the plotting for both the WIP (final touches) and the urban fantasy are on hold.
Two – I’ll have to copy all the words that had been already written on the notebooks. Form a very free calculation there must be around 32K words in there.
Hopefully, I’ll manage to sort the both of them.
From now on then, I’ll try to simplify the writeometer, let’s call it this way, values along with the book pages.
This way will let me have a tidier post and a reference for me, in case I want to track my progresses.
Word written for the WIP: 18,522 words
Fairy tales written: 3
Blog post written this month: 0 on 4 …oh what a shame!
Researching: N/A
Plotting: N/A
As for the reading, I’m still concentrating to narrow down the number of the books I’ve started a while ago.
I’m still reading some of them together, of course. Also, I’ve started and finished a new one and started a further new one.
So just to summarize:
There is no news for Irish ghost stories,
Wizards first rule, Memorie del sottosuolo, The wisdom of the dead man, A Song of Ice and Fire, Enciclopedia. Tutta la seconda Guerra Mondiale-volume 1, Irish Ghost Stories and Madame Bovary.
However, there is bit of improvement for the other titles:
Delitto e castigo – I’m at page 222 on 677.
City of bones – It’s finally finished.
The book thief – I’m at page 354 on 554.
Outlander – I’m at page 408 on 684.
Hunger – I’m at page 246 on 684.
I’ve read and finished The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne and I’ve started the Diary of Anne Frank.
And that’s it for the moment.
As usual, I’ll be very grateful for any advice you might want to share with me.
I wish you a nice bank holiday on the 1st of May and I hope I’ll be back posting once a week as intended.
At least I can promise you I’ll do my best to manage.
Dr.Franny and Mrs.Myself 