Goals:

Bone of Yesterday | draft 1 | 00,000 / 80,000

Bone of Yesterday | draft 2 | ??

Bone of Yesterday | beta readers | ??

Project:

Bone of Yesterday | a fantasy novel

From Erdwiy’s rugged highlands to its mist-wreathed forests and far-flung cities, knight-errant Brywen is renowned for two things: capturing the cannibalistic sorcerer Ivander and failing to save her squire from a bloody death at Ivander’s hands. She spends her days seeking atonement by hunting dark sorcerers and their malevolent fabricants across the land, and wastes her nights sleepless with guilt and recurring nightmares.

When Brywen follows a particularly slippery fabricant to a small farming village, she uncovers something strange at the burial ground. The local cleric had written off the empty coffin as a grave-robbing, but the illegible marks scratched into the inside of the coffin and the dried blood in each of the offering bowls sets Brywen’s senses tingling. She knows sorcery when she sees it—and when the cleric accidentally springs the trap left behind, Bronwyn’s suspicions are confirmed.

There is only one person knowledgeable enough to help her track the newly resurrected sorcerer. Ivander agrees to aid Brywen on one condition: once their quest is complete, he be moved to the crumbling island prison of Ortuus to live out his life sentence in peace and isolation. Erdwiy's ruling council accepts Ivander's terms and Brywen must force herself to work alongside the man she hates.

Although Brywen hopes she can use a lesser evil to catch a greater one, it soon becomes clear that dark forces are not so easily tamed—and revenge is the reward of a patient man.

SOLD! I'm so sold on this book! I can't wait to see your updates! <3

love your banner!
good luck seeing this project to completion this year.

Ooo! Good luck!

Best of luck in 2021!

Goals:

Bone of Yesterday | draft 1 | 10,002 / 80,000

Update:

I'd originally intended to update this thread in the middle of the month, but I guess that never happened. I think if I can at least keep to end-of-month updates that should be enough.

10k on this novel for January is pretty good. I'm glad I could get to a nice number. I haven't set myself exact word count goals for this project, and while this is less than I'd usually write in a good month...I got busy, you know how it is. I took off a week from this novel while I worked on a uni assessment and then that week turned into another week. I'm back on the horse now, at least.

I'd also intended to have an outline to work from before I started this novel, but that also didn't happen. Oops. I'm not flying blind, though: I'm working from a synopsis. So it's basically the same as an outline, except I have to decide on chapter length/break points as I go. Hopefully this doesn't come back to bite me later.

In other news, I've also been writing snippets of short fiction, as usual, and trying to work on revisions of a couple that have already been through a few drafts. Started playing around with poetry a bit as well.

That's about it for now. I'll have to make some time to check out everyone's progress threads - hopefully you're all doing well.

end of month updates are good --
any time updates are also good!
nice work with the 10k!