September 2018 Wrap-Up

It’s already the end of September!  That means that… in only a few hours… NaNoWriMo will only be a month away!  Eeek!  I’m actually pretty excited to start writing, but I’m a little scared all at the same time.  I’ve never written a novel before that wasn’t fanfiction.  But then again, I’ve been writing a lot of things this year that, even though they are in a pre-built universe, are original elements, like kidnapping and accidents and things like that.  I’ve also created original characters.  So maybe I’ll succeed this year.

Books Read:

This month I read thirteen books.  Two of them were audiobooks, and one of them was a reread.

• Queen of Shadows – Sarah J. Maas
• The Wolf and the Rain – Tanya Lee
• Everless – Sara Holland
• Ever the Brave – Erin Summerill
• Frequency – Christopher Krovatin
• War Storm – Victoria Aveyard
• Warcross – Marie Lu (reread)
• Wildcard – Marie Lu
• City of Fallen Angels – Cassandra Clare
• Addicted to Outrage – Glenn Beck
• Daughter of the Pirate King – Tricia Levenseller
• Legendary – Stephanie Garber
• Enchantée – Gita Trelease

My favorite books of the month were Wildcard and Enchantée.  I’m pretty sure that both books will end up near the top of my annual Best Books I Read for the First Time in 20XX list, that I put out every January 1st.

Blog Stats:

• Twitter has been doing really well.  I regained a lot of the followers that I lost last month, and am not at over 1575 followers.
• My monthly blog users went down, but that’s okay.  I haven’t had as much time to visit other people’s blogs.
• I have eight scheduled posts at the moment.  I need to write a couple more reviews tonight, and probably another Top Ten Tuesday.

Writing:

• My goal this month was to finish the first draft of Hero, and I’m one chapter away from finishing that.  It might take me a day longer than I had originally planned.
• I’m up to 18 pages of notes for Brightness of Shadow, my NaNoWriMo novel for this year.  I can’t wait to actually be able to start writing it.  I’ve had a couple quotes come to me, but I’m trying to not write anything yet.  Today I had another scene come to me.  More details are emerging about the book, which I’m pretty happy about.  I added my novel to my NaNoWriMo page.
• My goal for this month is to go through Hero and finish the second draft, and to do NaNoWriMo prep.  I may write in some of my unfinished projects, like Saving Adelinetta, that I don’t plan on finishing until 2019.

Life:

More of the same.  My dd spent another week and a half in the hospital.  Sigh.  She’s on another medicine that I hope works.  Everything else is going to work, getting up, taking dd to school, writing, reading, and going to bed.  Nothing exciting.

So that’s September.  I pretty much have the books I’m reading planned out for October already.  Lots of good books coming up to read.