Chapter 19 of One More Year is Out!

  Chapter 19 is out HERE (Nifty) and HERE (Literotica)

I'm on track! I think! I hope!

Okay, last week was rough, but this week was slightly better. The new novel is still feeling like a bit of a slog. I may be facing the reality that it'll need a lot of reworking by the time January/Feb rolls around anyway. But I'm writing in the meantime, and maybe (hopefully) most of what I come up with will be worth something in the end. We'll see!

In the meantime, I'm much more excited about One More Year, which is a strange reversal of how these two stories interacted in the past. I've just finished the major reworking for chapter 20, and it's been bugging me on-and-off for months now. (Holy crap - almost half a year.) But anyway, it's in a really good state, and will be getting some polish soon.

I've also gotten some really good ideas for the reworks for 21 and 22, which will be less of a struggle, but I think it will really strengthen the story. And then I'm on to 23 and 24, which are my wrap-up chapters. I won't talk too much about any of that this week (because I'll probably need the blog fodder later) but I am ready and raring to go with all of that. 

Hopefully all this pep lasts - and I have to be honest, it's probably a by-product of the nano project feeling like such a slog. I've always kind of been this way - I'll run away from the thing that feels like work, and towards the thing that seems fun. But given how much I hate editing - and how that's still the main task with OMY - I had kind of thought it would be the other way around. OH WELL. Whatever works.

I'm trying to read more Jane Austen at the moment, because she kind of inspires me, as weird as that may seem. Sense and Sensibility has been good so far. I vaguely suspect I already read it - or at least tried to - when I was a teenager, but now I'm giving it a serious go and tacking it with some real romance brain. It'll be interesting to see what I can take away from that.

I'll probably blog about it at some point (since, like I'm always mentioning, this blog is an exercise in self-indulgence.) But I'm still currently sitting on my post about Pride and Prejudice (which had a major influence on OMY) so I'll probably drop that one first.

Anyway, if you read this - well, you knew what you were getting into, so I shan't apologise. But thanks if you did, and I'll see you around.

Beta Readers:

Instead of tacking a lengthy appeal on the end of each blog post, I've actually made a page for this, so if you want to Beta Read, check it out HERE.

Thanks to my current Beta Readers. Especially Dora, who continues to continue to persevere with me, like a goddamn hero. And thanks to everyone who's dipped in and out - even helping me for a chapter or two was great. It's just so nice to know they've passed before the eyes of some readers and nothing is obviously wrong with them.

Thanks so much for reading! If you're reading... Are my blog posts being stalked by bots? I definitely see numbers happening, but maybe it's just people clicking through from twitter for the chapter links - also a perfectly valid reason to swing by. If you are reading though, as always, feel free to say hi! 😁