This month was a great one. Significant progress was made in the final read-through of Mielea’s Lost. It’s close to the halfway mark now. I should be able to get it done before the beginning of November. That is, if I keep myself focused enough.

One of my WIPs from the ‘endless backlog’ gained some attention this month after several years. This story has been around as long as Mielea’s Lost, but large world-building plot holes, and other issues left it at the bottom of the priority list.

I get inspiration strikes at the strangest times for most of my stories. So getting an ‘ah ha!’ moment while at work is not new for me. The fact that it was for a ‘dead’ story caught my attention. When I got home, I outlined as much as I could remember and figured it would be the end of it.

After working on it for three days, it has evolved. I’m confident that when the time comes, it will write itself. Like most of my WIPs, it doesn’t have a title, and its old moniker is no longer accurate. That is another day’s problem.

For other progress made with WIPs:

• a few hundred words written for Mielea’s Lost second book
• four handwritten pages of a different WIP.
• a few hundred words toward my urban fantasy world book(s)

For my goals for October, they will remain low. Any progress toward these specific things will make me content.

The Goals:

• Continue the last read of Mielea’s Lost
• Continue drafting Project Phoenix
• Continue drafting the second book of Mielea’s Lost series

In the coming months, I might make a post about my creative process and how I keep track of all the WIPs I have going at one time.

Until then, see you next month!

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