Weekly Update: #24
Happy Friday (or whatever day it is for you depending on your time zone)! Hope your week's been going well, mine has been busy with writing, writing, writing.
Between last week and early this week, I had written a bit over 1,500 words for chapter 8 of An Inkling of Magic, however, Wednesday came, and I was about to start a new scene in that chapter, but, upon rereading, the ending of the previous scene read more like a chapter ending than just a scene break. So, I decided to erase the chapter heading and add it onto chapter 7 and start over for chapter 8. It's set me back a little in getting October's chapter finished, but I have plenty of time yet for that and, this way, I think I chapters will flow better. I've already written another 980 words on the new chapter since rearranging things.
Speaking of chapter 7, it released today (yesterday on Patreon, but I didn't have time to get it up here until today)! It'll switch to public on Patreon on September 23. However, if you don't want to wait that long, you can always choose any supper tier on either Subscribe Star, Patreon, or Buy Me a Coffee (or make a custom pledge on Patreon) and get to read the chapter drafts as soon as they're released. On occasion, I will also be sharing research notes from my various story projects which will be posted as patron/subscriber-only bonus content.
With the shows over for the summer, I've finally been able to get back to the book resurrection project! So far this week, I've added another 407 words to book two of The Gemquist Chronicles and I'm hoping/planning to add a bunch more. One of my goals for this month is to write at have added at least another 8k words to the book by the end of the month, preferably more. At the time of the laptop malfunction, I'd been regularly writing about 10k words a week so this should be a very achievable goal if I don't run into any writer's block issues (sometimes, a scene or scene transition just likes to give trouble when it comes to wording it right).
This week was mostly focused on writing, so I haven't done any digital art this week, but next week I plan to pick one of my in-progress paintings to work on and see if I can't get one of them finished soon as I have many more waiting in the wings to get started.
The last of the new stones I ordered has arrived!! I won't be using them quite yet as the jewellery is on hiatus, but I'll be taking a picture of the new stones and sharing that with you sometime next week. Some of these stones I'm particularly excited about as, besides being gorgeous, they were rather dear to get and I've been eyeing them for a long time. I'm still waiting on an order of some sterling silver lever-back earring findings to arrive (it's a couple weeks late) so I can do some earring restocking later this winter, but that's going to be some time yet before they get here as the company has to send out a replacement order because the first package has been lost and is listed as having 'visible damage.' Praying there won't be any issues with the new package as this particular style of lever-back is hard to come by as my regular supplier has discontinued them.
That's about it for this week, so, back to writing for me, and thanks for reading!
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