How can it be May already? After March dragged on forever, April seemed to be gone in the blink o an eye!
In spite of everything, April was a pretty good month in Chez Wrayburn. Working from home kicked in, which took away a lot of the stress we’had been feeling about having to still show up for work each day, either paying exorbitant parking fees or catching public transport.
It is getting incredibly cold here, which is making it hard to really stick to my usual 6am writing habits. But I’m at least getting myself in front of a keyboard by 6:30 on most weekday mornings, and usually before 7am. So it still counts! I think there will be more writing in bed as the season goes on.
I have been thinking about how to keep this blog active, and have come to the conclusion I’m not very good at blog hops… I’m good at blogging, but not hopping, and I have never felt comfortable with posting in such things and getting lovely responses to my own post then not returning the favour.
So I’m not going to to do any more of that.
I am going to still post excerpts from my drafts every now and then, and I thought it might be fun to do other things like “Typo of the week”, and I might cross-post my writing-related Instagram posts here, too.
I’m currently in the middle of a return to the Operation: Sugarplum sequel. I’m hoping I might have this finished in a couple more weeks. Before yesterday’s writing session, I was only about 2200 words in. I’m now closing in on 6000. Sugarplum was roughly 12000 words, and I suspect this one might be a bit longer.
In the past week, I’ve also revisited Facing the Music, and written myself a very basic summary of each chapter in the first draft. Even though the ending was very scattered, I’ve decided to start looking at it in terms of revisions and rewrites, and make a start on Draft 2. If it doesn’t happen before then, I might make it a July Camp NaNoWriMo project.
Before I sign off, since I mentioned it, here is the typo of the week:
Max lipped his lips before he opened his mouth.
I don’t know exactly what lip-lipping is, but I thought it sounded vaguely uncomfortable.
And with that, I take my leave. Until next time.
Emily Wrayburn 
🤣 love that typo, Emily! I’ve been slacking off on 6am starts too, especially now that it’s getting colder. Will have to steal your working from bed idea 😅.
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I think it’s the only way! I’m going to have to make sure my laptop is charged and sit it beside the bed the night before or it’s not going to happen!
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Good plan!
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