Weekly Review - IX
Let's be honest...it's up until now. HAHA. The past few weeks? SOMETHING? SOMETIME?
I don’t wanna talk about the length of time between the weekly reviews.
HAHA. HA-HA. Haaaaa….
We are just…gonna sweep those under the rug.
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What has been happening the past few weeks.
I don’t really even know myself.
Just a bunch of packages for the kids coming for Christmas. That’s all.
Hahaha.
Just Kidding.
Kinda.
There are a lot of packages for them.
The past few weeks have been kinda crazy. One was completely wiped out by sickness. Everyone was heaving their cookies. Everyone was dying. We all got sick in order and I ended up down for weeks. I’d never been so thankful that I took a hiatus already, because I was down and out for so long.
Came back out of the sickness, only to be sick again. Just a different KIND of sick. It was great. Hit just me and my son. So we were miserable for another handful of days.
I literally can’t get through a month. I don’t even know at this point. There are those times I celebrate just going a month without being sick and times where I’m sick twice in one month. It’s just such a tossup sometimes.
Side note: I wish women’s health was easier to navigate and understanding what it means to have a compromised immune system and how to actually work on helping you get better. But that won’t be happening anytime soon. *sigh*
I have been working on the story The Wild Luna. This is what I consider my softer story break. Still “emotional” but nowhere near what The Rogue Kings II is for me.
Ephraim and Tahlia’s story coming together is sweet and really is a friendship rather than love to begin with. Simply because of the differences between the two of them. Tahlia is stuck in her wolf form, and no one really knows if her humanity is still in there, or if she will forever be a wolf.
Meanwhile, you have Ephraim who believes in the mate bond so much, was willing to let her go. But coming together again, he vows to make things right. To try and help Tahlia, even if she ends up staying in wolf form. That they can be partners, even without her humanity.
Some will notice early on, that this is another story that is connected. I wonder if anyone has caught it yet. ;)
It’s my fluffier story and it’s been fun just to write them. I got a little stumped recently, just from a slight change in plans that I wasn’t told about. But the characters apparently were. And maybe the Moon Goddess. I would have loved to know so I could have planned for it. That would have been nice. HA-HA.
Seriously though.
The Wild Luna is an exclusive to GoodNovel. So you can find it there and I have updated my “Upcoming Stories” to have the link there as well.
I don’t currently have a timetable, but I am throwing the chapters on as soon as I finish them. No buffer. Nothing. I’m just adding them when I can.
The Wild Luna: 55,324 words currently
Something else I dipped into was Saving My Alpha.
Some of you may know, but it is the third and final installment in The Perfect Designation Trilogy. Following Colton and Marcus through their mating and relationship.
I put a follow up and huge post to the mess that Loving My Omega put me through as a writer. HAHA. It wasn’t smooth and I was worried that this was going to happen again. Simply because everything that I had already written previously was out the window. Scrapped because the villain decided to do something dastardly and pull in a secondary villain to do his bidding and tare them apart.
*grumbles*
I was not prepared for that level of villainy and it happened and now here we are.
However, recently, I have been a but more inspired than I thought I would be. Especially this early.
I started writing bits and pieces, adding to the buildup of the villains coming together. As well as softer and sadder moments between Colton and Marcus.
Building out more of the magic system.
The potion and the true experiments behind the scenes.
What their goals were and how far they made it.
All of it. It just slowly stitched together. Including the end.
It’s not all written. I’ve got a lot of moments I need to add. But the fact that things pieced together, has been both a sigh of relief and I feeling that the second book was right. I originally was struggling with how different it turned out from my initial plans. With how this final installment is coming together though, I am so happy and I am really excited to share it with everyone.
Saving My Alpha: 57,848 words
Another big thing I did was work on the edits for Hiding My Omega. That might sound silly, since it came out forever ago. But there were some things that I just wasn’t happy with.
One, I got a new editing software and it works so much better and really forces me to be better and think about my wording choice. So that’s nice. I don’t always go with the option, simply because I am confident in my own writing style and voice, but I do take it under consideration.
It’s also not always right…so there is that.
I did a BIG change on a chapter that just…stuck out too much. It bothered me and I’m sorry if it bothered anyone else. Hahaha. But I have completely REWORKED Chapter 43. *GASP*
I know, I know.
I actually did the same for Promises Forgotten back in the day. You can find the original version actually still floating out there. But there was a chapter I changed and I was happier with it then.
This is the same. I feel like it’s less jarring. Less…stupid? I guess. Colton is forced into the situation rather than him just doing something stupid. Which didn’t fit Colton at all. So adjusting that helped so much.
If you want to check out the new updated version, it IS live for the ebook version. You can redownload it, or update the version and you should be able to read it with all the edits, and fixes, and the new chapter. ^_^
It took me days to go through and pick apart all the chapters.
This mostly started because I “plan” on having the physical versions available when the third book goes live. So I wanted to make sure I went through the book with a magnifying glass.
Yes. Loving My Omega is next on the chopping block for editing. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I started to read it with the editing software and I have never wanted to just throw something out the window like I did when I hit 0% for Grammar and Spelling on the software I use. But here we are. HAHA.
I’ll get through it.
A sneak peak at the covers here:
Outside of that. I did some dabbling here and there.
Omega To Four: 62,220 words
A Teaching Opportunity: 69,838 words
AURI: 14,914 words
I have been thinking about the project reading my World Building with everyone. More so that I need to think about how to get it done in the best way.
Milanote
GoogleDocs
Comments
Polls
Pretty much anything that I could think of to be able to give you guys access to the information. Chat about. Have access anytime and We can figure out the timeframe for each section that we are going to do.
Right now, I’m leaning towards Google Docs and setting up a Google dock for everyone to be able to comment things on. ^_^ I think that would be fun and everyone has access to it whenever they want.
It’s a huge world and it’s a lot of work even without not having anything. So I have some setting up to do before the first post rolls out. That story just hasn’t been on the forefront of my mind right since I have a list of other things I need to do/work on for the moment.
I’m getting there though! I might have ADHD, but even my brain has limits of how many stories it can juggle at once. HAHA.
I do push the limit sometimes. That’s for sure.
And really…all I want to do is read my stories when they are done. That’s mostly why I write them. So I can read them. Hahaha. I always hope everyone enjoys them, but I want to enjoy them and not have to think and write them. I just want to read them! GAH!
Why can’t they just pour out of me! Just show up on the page? WHYYYYYY?!
Another tangent, I guess. But one of my favorite light novels/manhua finally got an English release for the manhua AND I MUST SHARE IT WITH YOU GUYS.
Little Mushroom is one of my favorite manhuas. The art is so gorgeous and I just lost my mind over the artists interpretation of the light novel. It’s beautiful and I absolutely lose my mind.
Originally, it was only ever available online in English. But now, through Aloha Comics, they have a physical version in English! Link here! Book 1 & 2 are available now, with 3 on preorder.
I am so excited and they are now selling on Amazon and books stores like Kinokuniya. If you like a bit of an end of the world sci-fi…and BEAUTIFUL ART, I highly recommend.
I had to go through A LOT to get the original English translated light novels because the original company that had the rights to distribute went out of business. So I had to get my copies on eBay. gasp I will say, as a writer who does her own formatting, it’s terrible. The whole book is a technical disaster of formatting. It makes me want to cry and I have actually been working on my own copy for fun behind the scenes.
Yes, thats how much I love this novel.
There was an announcement recently that another publisher now has the rights to distribute and I will be eagerly keeping an eye out on how it looks. Twitter announcement here! Just because I will probably buy it still. Even though I might end up with three versions. That just how much of a fan I am.
It’s a much bigger manhua and story overseas, but I am so excited that I get to have everything in English and special versions of it. GAH!
fan girl-ing done
There hasn’t been too much though. I’m doing a big push on The Wild Luna. Seeing how much I can get done over the next two weeks or so.
After that, it’s the new year guys!
Next year might be a weird year, since we are actually planning on moving next year. So I don’t know how it’s going to end up playing out story-wise.
At the very least, Saving My Alpha IS coming out in February. That’s about all I can give just simply because I don’t have much more than that. HAHA.
I will keep everyone updated when I can. I do want to be more present and getting sick just stopped me from doing everything. I don’t have a backlog of things like I always want. So, it’s always me in the moment, but I’m trying! I promise! Haha. I just always take on too much and feel so bad when I can’t complete it. Even if I can use every excuse in the world.
I still feel bad.
I always want my readers to have something. So I push myself hard and sometimes it works out and other times it doesn’t. All while juggling more at home and getting things together.
So we shall see.
There are many things up in the air right now that I want to do and just everything keeps getting put on hold.
You guys are so wonderful though and I really hope you’re enjoying at least what I can bring to the table. HAHA.
I will be better! I promise!
Weekly update OUT!
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