I wrote a book in a month. And new artwork.

[ellenmillion]

So, that happened. I wrote a book in a month! I was using NaNoWriMo as a vague excuse to make this my goal, but I was aiming towards 'finished book' much more than '50k words.' And I did it! The book is 33k, but it's remarkably polished for a first draft - there are no gaps, no placeholders, no dangling bits I made notes to go back and fix. It's DONE. And I sort of love it. It has lots of my favorite tropes, and it's ridiculous and romantic and fun and funny. It's the sixth book I've written, and the second in three months.

YAY KINDERGARTEN.

I also finished this artwork, now available at my Etsy shop as a coloring page download.



Now I have to monitor homework, and there's a playdate pending, and I still have to post at Torn World and send an email...

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Hooray for your book! And as always, your wonderful art!

[kelkyag]

Congratulations on your delightful new book draft!

[nonesensed]

Wohoo, go you! Aiming to finish a book rather than getting to a certain word count is a very wise idea (I got my NaNo to 55k and I still have 3 chapters left to write '-_-). Great that you managed to get all your favorite tropes and stuff like that into the book too :D It's so easy to self-censor when one writes.

I thought I saw that you'd published books somewhere, but I'm slightly dead in the head right now so maybe I'm misremembering? Would love to check them out if they're available somewhere!

Also, lovely art as always <3

[rimturse]

You are so productive! And I love the drawing. :)

[ellenmillion]

Thank you! <3

I'm publishing under a TOP SEKRIT pseudonym - I'll PM you details. :P

[nonesensed]

I will guard your secret, never fear! ;) Adding fun stuff to my reading list :D