I didn’t make it through the A-Z Challenge last month. We hit ‘W’ and I just kind of crashed and burned. It was a lot of fun participating again this year, but I don’t know if I’ll do it again in the future. Last year I really loved having a direction for my prompts every day, and I had a lot more time since I was out of work. This year I tried to take on too much at once, and something had to give toward the end of the month.

But the kinda not fail is I did finish the novel I wanted to finish. I have a brand new shiny first draft I wrote in April and I’m revising it now. It’s been eons since I wrote something completely new. I got myself some shiny new characters, and a pretty plot, and it’s all sexy like a shiny new WIP should be ^_^

But along the same lines of not finishing the A-Z challenge…for the last couple of years I’ve tried to always post every weekday. I’ve had a couple of breaks where I didn’t quite make it, but for the most part, my 400+ posts indicate I did an okay job of keeping up.

I’m thinking it’s not feasible to do the daily thing any more. I’m horrible at sticking to schedules, so I’m not going to say “I’ll be here on Monday and Wednesday”, but I suspect most people read blog posts in a news feed or reader, and aren’t clicking to specific sites on a daily basis, so I’m okay with that.

I’ll be around on days when the blogging inspiration strikes, but for the next couple of months at least, I have a handful of novel projects I need to focus on moving to the next stage. I’m about to start querying a new novel (category romance, who knew?), I’m already in the middle of querying the previous one (I’ve given Apathy’s Hero another couple of months of querying, it needs to prove itself this time though), and once I finish revisions, I’ll be adding book #3 to the list (contemporary romance), and then on to writing #4 (let’s call this one dystopian with romantic elements).

I still <3 y'all in blog land, and I'll keep reading your posts every morning, as is part of my daily routine, just hang in with me until I catch up on the clutter that is my creativity, and I'll be back 😀 How was your April?