May 2019 Monthly Wrap-Up

Hooray! It’s the last day of May! Today’s the last day at my job… 6 hours, 360 minutes (of work, I’m not counting lunch)… but who’s counting, right? Anyway, I’m excited because then I get to work at home again! Part of me is sad because I’ve already had to say goodbye to some of my coworkers, although I’ll probably go out of my way to shop there sometimes when I’m at the library (which is just down the road) so I will see some of them sometimes.

But let’s wrap up May first!

Books Read:

I only finished reading eight books this month. Expect more next month as I’ll have more time to read, and I also have a few unfinished books. But here are the books:

• Rebel – Beverly Jenkins
• Storm and Fury – Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Circe – Madeline Miller
• The Poppy War – R.F. Kuang
• The Thirteenth Guardian – K.M. Lewis
• Alex, Approximately – Jenn Bennett
• Shadow of the Fox – Julie Kagawa
• Soul of the Sword – Julie Kagawa

I just realized that these are all new-to-me authors this month.

Blog Stats:

• Twitter: 2050 followers. Can’t complain here. I didn’t spend as much time playing Twitter games this month as I have been, but I hope to do more next month.
• Blog visits are about the same too. I have had the chance to visit more blogs, as my Spanish classes have finished, but mostly on Tuesday, because I was still working pretty much every other day.

Writing:

I’m still working on Draft 3 of THE BRIGHTNESS OF SHADOW (which I might rename). I added slightly over 2000 words this month, but that doesn’t really tell you the full picture, because I also replaced more scenes that didn’t fit into the tweaks I’ve been making to the book. Some days that I work on it, the changes are small (like I added a thunderstorm to one scene). I hope to work on this nearly every day starting tomorrow.

I did more Attic Notebook prompts this month too. Attic Notebook is a concept that Laini Taylor started where you write a scene for 15 minutes (I use the #vss365 prompt most of the time) and when you’re done with it, you don’t look at it again… until you fill up the notebook and set it aside for a month or two. Some of the prompts I’ve done might make good stories at a later date.

Life:

I love my new laptop and phone. So that’s good.

This was not a good month for fish. One of our fish got caught in the fish filter, so we went and got two more fish, and another one just got caught in the fish filter. Ugh! We’ve had this fish filter for over a year with no problems until now.

Last day of work today. Happy about that.

Had another hospital trip, but this one was short. Hopefully none in June?

So that was May. It was pretty good, but I’m looking forward to an even better June!