Jan 11, 2021 12:41:44 GMT -5 Mel said:

I love that cover! The type is fantastic.

Also, I would love to see your chair (is that creepy? lol) when you get it because I am in desperate need of a new, actually comfortable chair and need recommendations. 😂

Ahaha no, but it’s funny! I’ll definitely do the pictures when it’s all set up. Although I will say that most of their chairs are a $350-500 range. But they are guaranteed 5 yr warranty. And with that many views and friends who have them, I’m inclined to believe.

Aww yay! I love the cover too! I can’t remember what the font in called.. it’s an old one.. but I agree, it makes it creepy.

I’ve also realized that week 2 was pure crackhead energy reading it back over.... oops.

January - Week 3 Update

This week was harder than last. I just.. I'm trying to be so kind to myself and forgiving but it's hard when I want to work on my writing so badly. I'm working on finding a nice SAD lamp to help with things. 

I did almost no words and it's painful to know that. Especially since I've really had the characters floating around in my brain. 

This week I'm just lowering all the goals down. Any words will be good. No dailies stuff. Just working my way back into what I can mentally and spoons handle.

Yes be kind to yourself! You've made a good start to the year and it is only the start of the year. I know how you feel, the projects all stretching out before you, want to take massive bites and get them done! But it takes time, slow and steady wins the race. You are doing brilliant and we're all cheering for you!

I'm with you on the spoon hunt, Ash. Eventually, you'll get back to where you were. And I feel you with the spicy characters. They need to wait until it's time for spice!

It's a bit late, but that's okay! I'm here and trying to work through my stuff. January was a hard month and February is looking to be a bit difficult too, but I am thinking that it's more the project that's giving me the stiff one. But I am determined to finish it before I do anything else! 

So here is to finishing one thing and starting to do the genre stretch and the KWIF challenge!

Main Post is Updated! Including the Blogging section in the first part - you can read my informational posts I do!

GOALS

☐ Finish A Touch of Magic Draft and Edit - Approx 50k completed
☐ Start working on Coven Novellas for Genre Stretch & KWIF ~Approx 20-25k each

☐ Reach 3,000 Followers on TikTok

☐ Reach 230 Followers on Instagram
☐ Post 1x/wk on Author Blog 
☐ Maintain 4 the Words Streak 

PROGRESS

WRITING

A Touch of Magic || 36,788 / 50,000 ||  ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|░|░|░| 73% 

Captive (Coven #4)   ||  0,000 / 20,000 ||  ░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 0%

Craved (Coven #1) || 0,000 / 20,000 || ░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 0%

Maintain 4TW Streak   || 8/28|| ▒|▒|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 28%

SOCIAL MEDIA

Reach 3,000 TikTok   || 2,810/3,000 || ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|░| 94%

Reach 230 Insta   || 225/230 || ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|░| 95%

PROJECTS

A TOUCH OF MAGIC
Emissary of Magic Season One #2
Urban Fantasy

Dyani has gotten stuck with a meddling Goddess, a hot teacher, an amazing group of friends, and to top it all off - starting the magical version of high school. Things haven't been easy since the 24 year old started at Dalition School of Magic, but she's doing the best she can. There are the haters and the nerds, but doesn't every school have that? With the announcement that the Tri-Annual Tournament is being held at the end of the year, Dyani pushes herself to the limit to reach the level that students much younger than her have.

Even with the help of a meddling Goddess, Dyani struggles with not only the school and the bullies, but learning that there is something much more at stake with each unraveled mystery. Samhain is around the corner and Dyani is trying to do her best to juggle learning a new culture while finishing up her nonmagical Master's Degree in secret. With a growing attraction to her - at the moment - untouchable teacher, the first semester is starting to shape into a wild ride that could very well leave Dyani in the middle of something much bigger than her.

(Holy crap, I just wrote that off the top of my head just for this)

CRAVED (Coven Novella #1)
Paranormal Romance

Ever since that fire that destroyed her childhood house when she was 5, Hanna has been deathly afraid of fire. Unfortunately for her, her roommate is a witch who likes to burn candles and incense in her room, and often leaves the house forgetting to put them out first.

One day, Hanna sees candles burning in her roommate's room, while her roommate isn't there. "Typical!" she thinks and runs into the room, frantically blowing out the candles and incense. What she doesn't know is that her roommate had just attempted to summon a djinn for the first time.
Having gotten no reply, she decided that the summoning had been unsuccessful and left the house to go to the grocery store.

Alas, the summoning was successful. Too successful, in fact:

Unbeknownst to her, Hanna's roommate managed to summon one of the grumpiest djinn willing to respond to human summonings.
Athdar, the prince of the Red Djinn had suddenly found himself in a college girl's bedroom, and the witch that summoned him didn't even have the manners to stick around and greet him! The nerve! As if that weren't enough, as he was about to leave, the stupid bitch suddenly returned and blew his smokeless fire body to pieces with her strawberry-smelling breath!

But Athdar won't be taken for a fool. No, no, he will not become the laughing stock of the Red Djinn court! He decides to get his revenge in the only way that seems appropriate to him: if this witch enjoys blowing so much, she is going to be blowing him from now on. At least until the next dark moon.....


CAPTIVE (Coven Novella #4)
Paranormal Romance

This is book #4 but it is set for the Nautical challenge for February's Genre Stretch. I'm doing the Prelim writing and can change it later on.
Being new to the town is not easy. Being a witch is even harder. The worst? Finding a new coven without outing herself to those who are not in the know. Searching for this rumored Coven that sprung up, FMC is desperate to run away from her past. Finding the Coven was easy, convincing them to bring her in was a whole new game.

FMC is running from a past that even she doesn't want to admit to. It seemed like the best option to leave all of that behind and start anew. Everything is going well. She's got a new job in the Coven's Bar/Club as a bartender. She's got a whole new family and friends developing. Hearing the call of a Siren was not on her list of things she wanted to experience. Falling for said Siren was something that she never thought possible. 

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Total Feb. Word Count: 5,306
Total Word Count: 37,747

4TW Streak Count: 8/28

𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 

Topics:

TBD

𝒮𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝑀𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒶

TikTok Followers: 2810

Instagram Followers: 225

𝕎𝕣𝕚𝕐𝕖/𝟜𝕋𝕎

Genre Stretch
Nautical w/ Captive!

KWIF
Romance - Captive & Craved

WriDay (3rd)
3,000 / 2,500

NEW MOON MADNESS (Feb 11)
0,000 / 3,600

Jan 18, 2021 4:58:34 GMT -5 galactic-pirates said:

Yes be kind to yourself! You've made a good start to the year and it is only the start of the year. I know how you feel, the projects all stretching out before you, want to take massive bites and get them done! But it takes time, slow and steady wins the race. You are doing brilliant and we're all cheering for you!

Ahh thank you! I am trying for sure but this past month was really daggon hard. I appreciate the words. Yeah, I'm just chugging along now and while I have goals, I am not punishing myself so much for not meeting them. Including reducing what is going on.

Jan 19, 2021 0:01:14 GMT -5 khelessindarae said:

I'm with you on the spoon hunt, Ash. Eventually, you'll get back to where you were. And I feel you with the spicy characters. They need to wait until it's time for spice!

<3 I appreciate you! Ahaha yeah those spicy characters are the reason for my struggle with catching up in place for this book. But it happens!! ROFL. Thank you <3

MID-MONTH UPDATE

Okay so it's been a hot minute since I did this and now I can do a super update of how things are. I do want to really pick up with the updates but also have been in a super writing spree this past week. It's been crazy amazing!!!!

But I also have yet to start my KWIF project. BUT that's not too bad.. A Touch of Magic has actually gone over the word count goal and is still going strong. I won't complain because I'm on a roll and will transfer that to the new project when I get there.

I never thought that I would actually start a secondary color on the progress bars to show how much above I was!

GOALS

☐ Finish A Touch of Magic Draft and Edit - Approx 50k completed
☐ Start working on Coven Novellas for Genre Stretch & KWIF ~Approx 20-25k each

☐ Reach 3,000 Followers on TikTok

☐ Reach 230 Followers on Instagram
☐ Post 1x/wk on Author Blog 
☐ Maintain 4 the Words Streak 

PROGRESS

WRITING

A Touch of Magic || 58,882 / 50,000 ||  ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒| 118% 

Captive (Coven #4)   ||  0,000 / 20,000 ||  ░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 0%

Craved (Coven #1) || 0,000 / 20,000 || ░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 0%

Maintain 4TW Streak   || 19/28|| ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|░|░| 70%

SOCIAL MEDIA

Reach 3,000 TikTok   || 2,993/3,000 || ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|░| 99%

Reach 230 Insta   || 225/230 || ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|░| 95%

PROJECTS

A TOUCH OF MAGIC
Emissary of Magic Season One #2
Urban Fantasy

Dyani has gotten stuck with a meddling Goddess, a hot teacher, an amazing group of friends, and to top it all off - starting the magical version of high school. Things haven't been easy since the 24 year old started at Dalition School of Magic, but she's doing the best she can. There are the haters and the nerds, but doesn't every school have that? With the announcement that the Tri-Annual Tournament is being held at the end of the year, Dyani pushes herself to the limit to reach the level that students much younger than her have.

Even with the help of a meddling Goddess, Dyani struggles with not only the school and the bullies, but learning that there is something much more at stake with each unraveled mystery. Samhain is around the corner and Dyani is trying to do her best to juggle learning a new culture while finishing up her nonmagical Master's Degree in secret. With a growing attraction to her - at the moment - untouchable teacher, the first semester is starting to shape into a wild ride that could very well leave Dyani in the middle of something much bigger than her.

(Holy crap, I just wrote that off the top of my head just for this)

CRAVED (Coven Novella #1)
Paranormal Romance

Ever since that fire that destroyed her childhood house when she was 5, Hanna has been deathly afraid of fire. Unfortunately for her, her roommate is a witch who likes to burn candles and incense in her room, and often leaves the house forgetting to put them out first.

One day, Hanna sees candles burning in her roommate's room, while her roommate isn't there. "Typical!" she thinks and runs into the room, frantically blowing out the candles and incense. What she doesn't know is that her roommate had just attempted to summon a djinn for the first time.
Having gotten no reply, she decided that the summoning had been unsuccessful and left the house to go to the grocery store.

Alas, the summoning was successful. Too successful, in fact:

Unbeknownst to her, Hanna's roommate managed to summon one of the grumpiest djinn willing to respond to human summonings.
Athdar, the prince of the Red Djinn had suddenly found himself in a college girl's bedroom, and the witch that summoned him didn't even have the manners to stick around and greet him! The nerve! As if that weren't enough, as he was about to leave, the stupid bitch suddenly returned and blew his smokeless fire body to pieces with her strawberry-smelling breath!

But Athdar won't be taken for a fool. No, no, he will not become the laughing stock of the Red Djinn court! He decides to get his revenge in the only way that seems appropriate to him: if this witch enjoys blowing so much, she is going to be blowing him from now on. At least until the next dark moon.....


CAPTIVE (Coven Novella #4)
Paranormal Romance

This is book #4 but it is set for the Nautical challenge for February's Genre Stretch. I'm doing the Prelim writing and can change it later on.
Being new to the town is not easy. Being a witch is even harder. The worst? Finding a new coven without outing herself to those who are not in the know. Searching for this rumored Coven that sprung up, FMC is desperate to run away from her past. Finding the Coven was easy, convincing them to bring her in was a whole new game.

FMC is running from a past that even she doesn't want to admit to. It seemed like the best option to leave all of that behind and start anew. Everything is going well. She's got a new job in the Coven's Bar/Club as a bartender. She's got a whole new family and friends developing. Hearing the call of a Siren was not on her list of things she wanted to experience. Falling for said Siren was something that she never thought possible. 

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𝒲𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔

Total Feb. Word Count: 30,161
Total Word Count: 62,602

4TW Streak Count: 19/28

𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 

Topics:

TBD

𝒮𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝑀𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒶

TikTok Followers: 2993

Instagram Followers: 224

𝕎𝕣𝕚𝕐𝕖/𝟜𝕋𝕎

Genre Stretch
Nautical w/ Captive!

KWIF
Romance - Captive & Craved

WriDay (3rd)
3,000 / 2,500

NEW MOON MADNESS (Feb 11)
2,500 / 3,600

15k/3 WEEKEND (Feb 19-21)
0,000 / 15,000

4TW LOVE FESTIVAL
- All Quests Complete (minus gratitude)
- Claim all Token Shop Items
- Hit Mastery Level (either 50 or 100 lvl) of Love Creature (BUHINI)

You've been doing awesome!! <3

Feb 20, 2021 16:20:18 GMT -5 Mel said:

You've been doing awesome!! <3

Awww thank you so much!! I'm really trying to get things moving along and really getting these projects written.

END-MONTH UPDATE

Well, I finished a project. That was my super goal and I hit it. I'm happy to be starting the next book in the series for the month of March. Time is flying so fast that I didn't even realize that it was the end of February. 

So this is the final update for this month!

GOALS

☐ Finish A Touch of Magic Draft and Edit - Approx 50k completed
☐ Start working on Coven Novellas for Genre Stretch & KWIF ~Approx 20-25k each

☐ Reach 3,000 Followers on TikTok

☐ Reach 230 Followers on Instagram (Close enough, 225)
☐ Post 1x/wk on Author Blog 
☐ Maintain 4 the Words Streak 

PROGRESS

WRITING

A Touch of Magic (EoM #2) || 67,000 / 50,000 ||  ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒| 132% 

A Realm of Magic (EoM #3)   || 3,000 / 50,000 || ▒|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 2%

Maintain 4TW Streak   || 19/28|| ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒| 100%

SOCIAL MEDIA

Reach 3,000 TikTok   || 3,100/3,000 || ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒| 110%

Reach 230 Insta   || 225/230 || ▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|▒|░| 95%

PROJECTS

A TOUCH OF MAGIC
Emissary of Magic Season One #2
Urban Fantasy

Dyani has gotten stuck with a meddling Goddess, a hot teacher, an amazing group of friends, and to top it all off - starting the magical version of high school. Things haven't been easy since the 24 year old started at Dalition School of Magic, but she's doing the best she can. There are the haters and the nerds, but doesn't every school have that? With the announcement that the Tri-Annual Tournament is being held at the end of the year, Dyani pushes herself to the limit to reach the level that students much younger than her have.

Even with the help of a meddling Goddess, Dyani struggles with not only the school and the bullies, but learning that there is something much more at stake with each unraveled mystery. Samhain is around the corner and Dyani is trying to do her best to juggle learning a new culture while finishing up her nonmagical Master's Degree in secret. With a growing attraction to her - at the moment - untouchable teacher, the first semester is starting to shape into a wild ride that could very well leave Dyani in the middle of something much bigger than her.

(Holy crap, I just wrote that off the top of my head just for this)

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𝒲𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔

Total Feb. Word Count: 42,000+
Total Word Count: 75,000+

4TW Streak Count: 28/28

𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 

Topics:

TBD

𝒮𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝑀𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒶

TikTok Followers: 3100

Instagram Followers: 225

𝕎𝕣𝕚𝕐𝕖/𝟜𝕋𝕎

Genre Stretch
Nautical w/ Captive!

KWIF
Romance - Captive & Craved

WriDay (3rd)
3,000 / 2,500

NEW MOON MADNESS (Feb 11)
2,500 / 3,600

15k/3 WEEKEND (Feb 19-21)
12,000 / 15,000

4TW LOVE FESTIVAL
- All Quests Complete (minus gratitude)
- Claim all Token Shop Items
- Hit Mastery Level (either 50 or 100 lvl) of Love Creature (BUHINI)

New Month, New Things

The last two months have been really difficult. I've been stuck inside for all of April. I injured my back and have been unable to do much but lay around and confined to bed... really only able to read. So now I am slowly getting back into writing. I have short goals or no goals at all because this is a month where I am not stressing myself. Every thing will be a celebration and a joy to do. I stressed myself out so bad over 4TW and writing that I inevitably caused a writer block.
So this month is focusing on the act of writing, no matter how small. 
All of these are loose goals.

GOALS

☐ Edit A Touch of Magic and set for publish
☐ Write 2 chapters of Craved: Coven #1 for Kindle Vella
☐ Work on A Realm of Magic #3

☐ Write 2 chapters of Forest of Shadows for Kindle Vella
☐ Post on Author Blog 
☐ Maintain 4 the Words Streak 

PROGRESS

WRITING

A Realm of Magic (EoM #3) || 4,400 / 50,000 ||  ▒|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 3% 

Craved (Coven #1)   || 1,000 / 25,000 || ▒|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 4%

Forest of Shadows   || 600 / 75,000 || ▒|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| .5%

Maintain 4TW Streak   || 6/30|| ▒|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░| 10%

EDITING

A Touch of Magic (EoM #2) || 0,000 / 67,000 || ░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|░|0%

PROJECTS

A Realm of Magic
Emissary of Magic Season One #3
Urban Fantasy

Now that she has been stuck in a magical version of a coma, Dyani is being put through the paces. The Goddess is making sure that no time is wasted for her Emissary and Dyani gets to catch up to her peers. With long dead magic teachers being brought in to being shoved into the past, there is much for Dyani to learn about this world of magic still. The best part? Finding out that the Goddess has the ability to send her directly 2000 years into the past where the Magical Olympics started. Learning new skills and finding out just how out of touch with the magical world she is, Dyani finds herself with a whole new outlook on life. 

Britt is stuck watching over the woman that he's come to grow fond of. Seeing her lay there in the hospital is drawing more attention to this very fact. The headmistress is growing suspicious and Britt is having to dodge some very pointed questions. How much longer will he have to wait for Dyani to wake when she is 2000 years in the past with another man drawing her attention and learning forbidden magics?


CRAVED (Coven Novella #1)
Paranormal Romance

Ever since that fire that destroyed her childhood house when she was 5, Hanna has been deathly afraid of fire. Unfortunately for her, her roommate is a witch who likes to burn candles and incense in her room, and often leaves the house forgetting to put them out first.

One day, Hanna sees candles burning in her roommate's room, while her roommate isn't there. "Typical!" she thinks and runs into the room, frantically blowing out the candles and incense. What she doesn't know is that her roommate had just attempted to summon a djinn for the first time.
Having gotten no reply, she decided that the summoning had been unsuccessful and left the house to go to the grocery store.

Alas, the summoning was successful. Too successful, in fact:

Unbeknownst to her, Hanna's roommate managed to summon one of the grumpiest djinn willing to respond to human summonings.
Athdar, the prince of the Red Djinn had suddenly found himself in a college girl's bedroom, and the witch that summoned him didn't even have the manners to stick around and greet him! The nerve! As if that weren't enough, as he was about to leave, the stupid bitch suddenly returned and blew his smokeless fire body to pieces with her strawberry-smelling breath!

But Athdar won't be taken for a fool. No, no, he will not become the laughing stock of the Red Djinn court! He decides to get his revenge in the only way that seems appropriate to him: if this witch enjoys blowing so much, she is going to be blowing him from now on. At least until the next dark moon.....

FOREST OF SHADOWS
Dark Paranormal Fantasy

The Fae once roamed the world, sharing upon the same space and resources as humans, until they absolved themselves of the primitivity that humans were. Elaaria is a realm sitting atop the Earth realm and the Guardians of the Gates heavily monitor it’s entrances, though humans are aware their existence. So it is a surprise when a human stumbles through one. Sofia is a girl like no other. She tumbles through the Gate beaten bloody and her clothes full of holes, yet she stands tall in front of the “welcoming committee”. Sofia seeks to remain in Elaaria, leaving behind the one that brought his fist upon her skin.

Except, the Travail has made its annual appearance, leaving the entire realm in bated breath. Prospective Champions are pouring in to brave the Edge, the forest in which they must traverse through in order to have a chance at the job of dreams. Either you can become a Guardian of the Gates with freedom to wander between the realms or become one the the Elite Guards who protect the Fae Royalty, the Sidhe.

Sofia is taken into custody as she is falsely accused of harming a Fae. Her punishment? Being sent to the Edge to prove her worth of being permitted to stay within Elaaria. With no prior training, her likelihood of surviving is slim. Except, once she steps into into the Edge, things take a turn for the worse. Much worse than she would have ever imagined. Instead of conquering the Edge, she now faces much more sinister plots. Including the underhanded schemes of overthrowing the Sidhe’s throne with brutal assassination plans. Now, Sofia must fight to rescue the lives of those who may condemn her for being human.

The Travail has begun, let the race to the Throne begin.

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Total May Word Count: 0,000
Total Word Count: 75,000+

4TW Streak Count: 6/30

𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘 

Topics:

TBD

𝒮𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝑀𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒶

TikTok Followers: 3100

Instagram Followers: 225

𝕎𝕣𝕚𝕐𝕖/𝟜𝕋𝕎