The month of April was a crazy month for me–I began a new job that required from me an intensive training schedule, and I opened a website that’s been keeping me very busy. Even so, I carried my laptop around in order to do some writing on my lunches. I didn’t hit my goal of 20,000 words, but I did just crack 10,000. Not bad, I say, and those 10,000 got me through a difficult chapter in Circle.

I’m going for 20k word again now in May. Circle of Many Faces is now finally in its “second stage;” the true “beginning” of the book is finished. It’s exciting and nerve-wracking, because this is where I deviate from the original version (written in 2004 during Nanowrimo and not for human consumption, ever).

I’m happy my training’s over, though. My critique group is meeting is person again and I have missed them. The Tucson Writers group is amazing. I’m kind of an airhead, I make stupid continuity mistakes in my writing, and I look to them to find them for me. Also, I admit I get really excited to hear what people think of the story. What can I say? I love feedback and critique.

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I was supposed to keep this blog up much better than I have. I kept telling myself I would update this site early into February, and now February’s almost over. Though, I don’t think I have too many readers not on the LiveJournal feed anyhow.

Partially, I blame my Sprained Ankle of Death. I sprained my ankle very badly on January 6, and that combined with my stolen car in December (which has yet to be replaced), I’m stuck at home all the time, and it’s been depressing. It’s getting harder and harder to motivate myself. As the sidebar on the rest of my site will show, I’m 44% to my goal of 20,000 words this month. I think I can do it anyway, but we’ll see.

I’m enjoying my progress on Circle of Many Faces, which I feel is finally going somewhere. It amazes me, when I look back at the NaNo version, how poorly put-together it was. When I hit 30,000 words back then, I was steering the book towards the final showdown. Of course, I was also writing without either a care nor an outline, but in my current version, I’ve still yet to reach the first climactic moment. I’m only a few chapters away, however.

Someone needs to tell my respective younger twins to behave themselves, though. Their characters are taking on traits I never expected them to. Reeve has a mouth that proves whose brother he is, and Aislinn’s table manners are horrifying. As in “Sam, did a cat take a piss in the soup or what?” horrifying. In front of company. Of course, she was just teasing. In the end, she just wants her brother to be happy.

From now on, I’ll try to make myself record some serious writing progress in this blog at least once a week.

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I’m feeling pretty productive lately, though when I look, I see I’m really only a little bit ahead of par for the goal of 20,000 words, so I need to step things up a little bit. I accidentally forgot to save my draft of Circle of Many Faces back onto the floppy disk that I use to transfer files to and from my temporary laptop, the “brick.” Thus, I can only work on it on that machine… and so, I think I’ll take a break and work on Rainbow Covey or the project that still needs a title.

One might think that my sprained ankle would be a motivator to sit down and write, but now that it’s there, I just want to get up and run around.

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