Week 1
What even happened this month? May has been the quickest month of the year by far for me. Unfortunately, not a lot has happened on the writing front. I spent the first week getting in a few submissions to magazines that opened to them in May – editing and tweaking the work, but have not heard anything back at the time of writing.
Week 2
Week 2 began the May monthly trend of not getting any writing done whatsoever. I have a tendency where, when the day job ratchets up, the night job ratchets down (is that a term?) and I just find myself having no energy. I did make one exception to this, when I entered my novel, Going Fourth, into the lottery for Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off. Unfortunately, mine was one of the (roughly) 50% of novels that didn’t make it in, but I’d still advise everyone to check it out and make sure they catch some great self-published novels here (link). I ended the week at a wedding where, unsurprisingly, no writing was completed. It’s a rare thing when my family all get together, considering how spread out we are across the isles, so I didn’t want to miss out. I think, as the below picture shows, I made the right call:
Week 3
Week 3 started on the day after the wedding, which was up in Scotland. We got to see the Kelpies in Falkirk before heading back down, then I was immediately back into the daily grind. Again, not much on the writing front this week, aside from that in this week Going Fourth broke even, meaning I now have to fulfil a promise to share the concept art for the cover. I’m just giving people enough time to brace themselves, but for those that are ready, please see below.
Week 4
In the last week of May, I’ve started to try and pick things back up again. I may have mentioned a small project that my writing group is working on – I’ve been putting together some feedback provided on a short story for the project and have begun the editing process on that one, plus I’m trying to catch up on some critiquing of other writers work to help them along. I’m hoping that June will be the month for another story and picking back up on the 200 words a day ethos of earlier in the year. But hope and action are two very different things. Let’s see what the future holds.
And now, as promised, and as a testament to the skill of cover artists the world around, please find the Going Fourth Concept Art:
And for comparison:
See you then,
GJD