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Roundup: February 2022

Current status and updates for all my active projects, both on and offline. For quick synopses of each of these books, check out my Wattpad info doc: it's linked in my profile bio and in the intro chapter of this book.

Song of the Deep: With As the Crow Falls off my plate, I'm back to picking away at this one offline. It still has a five-month posting buffer. This is my "fluff" project, though (it's definitely half Horror, haha), which means I write it for fun and tend to make progress on it even when I'm in school!. I'm also looking forward to sprinting a bunch of it come Camp NaNo in April.

Can You Cook a Dragon (Flash Fiction Collection): Still quiet on this front, though there's a chance I'll throw a flash-fic or two at it as I'm planning Thistle in the Sky. I don't tend to write much flash fiction while I'm in school, in the interest of limiting the number of things I try to keep on top of.

Thistle in the Sky: Coming shortly! This is my N/ONC novella (see the next chapter of this book for details) whose first chapter will go live as soon as it's written. Weekly updates will begin after that as soon as I have a buffer. Given the nature of the ONC, this book will post while in progress rather than being completed offline first. 

As the Crow Falls: As of last night (okay, 4am this morning), this book is COMPLETE OFFLINE! My book-sprinting experiment was a wild success: I just wrote 44 chapters in 45 days, for a total of just over 100k words. I'm now letting this manuscript rest for a few weeks before I start to edit, though that break may last until April if school and N/ONC end up taking over my life. Sometime in May is a good bet for a launch date—I can't wait to get this one on my profile, and it will update three times a week once there.

Rocks Can Dance: Still paused at 70k offline, with strong potential for me to start writing on and off again throughout the spring semester, or in April's Camp NaNo at the latest.

Stormrunner: Planning is on pause to make room for Thistle in the Sky, which I'm hoping will give me some more experience with airships that will prove useful here. This book is still lined up to be the next thing I write after Song of the Deep and Rocks Can Dance.

Hattu Empire Series (aka Desert Epic): I'll be in and out of this series' worldbuilding doc again in the coming months, as worldbuilding is often easier than writing. 

January was a chill month, giving me time and space to write 70k words and get almost a month ahead on my yearly goal. I suspect February will not be so forgiving. Besides grad school, I'm busy co-running a novella festival, modding/organizing an online writing community, and not neglecting my cats (they missed me over the last month, oops) so there's a lot to juggle these days.

Because of that, I'm giving myself permission to take it easy on the writing front for the next few months, putting most of my focus on Thistle in the Sky, and secondarily Song of the Deep, which I want to be farther ahead on when its current buffer runs out. This means that longer or intermittent projects like Rocks Can Dance or my flash-fiction collection will likely remain quiet until the semester ends. I still don't know what I'll be doing in the summer besides my current part-time gig, so no updates on that—though if anyone wants to teach my university what communication looks like, I will shower you with thanks and cookies.

(And before anyone says it, yes, I know my definition of "taking it easy" is not necessarily sane, LOL. I am aware of this discrepancy, and have no plans whatsoever to change it 😂)

This book will update next if/when I enter the main ONC, or that failing, at the start of March with my next roundup. See you all then!

This one's name is Sammy. He is sixteen years old and has about two [2] brain cells, but he's as snuggly as he looks.