November Monthly Wrap-Up

November is but a memory, which means that it’s time to take a few minutes to talk about what happened.

Books Read:

I only read eight books this month, but I was really busy winning NaNoWriMo.

• Here and Now and Then – Mike Chen
• The Cruel Prince – Holly Black
• Crow Flight – Susan Cunningham
• Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Clare
• The Young Adult Writer’s Journey – Janet Schraeder-Post and Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds
• Clockwork Prince – Cassandra Clare
• Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
• Clockwork Princess – Cassandra Clare

That’s still an average of two books per week while writing over 50k words.  Not too bad.  Right now I’m trying to finish Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows before Queen of Air and Darkness comes out on Tuesday.  A little insane, but I might actually do it.

Blog Stats:

• I’m at 1,764 followers on Twitter.  NaNoWriMo has been really good to me there.
• Unfortunately, on the actual blog I haven’t had time to visit other people’s sites as much as I’d like to.  Hopefully there will be more time in December.  I don’t even have next week’s Top Ten Tuesday post written yet.

Writing:

I wrote 53,675 words on The Brightness of Shadow this month, which means I won NaNoWriMo.  Yay!  I still have 13 chapters left, however.  I hope to finish them this month, because then I’ll need to spend January editing, because I have work with my critique partner to do at the beginning of February.  I already know a few things that I’m going to change to make this better in the second draft.

Life:

So, no car accidents this month.  We got our new car to replace the one I totalled.  The last two Saturdays have been really treacherous on the roads though.

My daughter spent another week in the hospital, but she’s out now.

So that’s what happened this month.  Lots of writing.  Next month hopefully I’ll get more reading done and I’ll finish the first draft of my book.