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The quick recap of last week went like this. Monday was my birthday. I was not ready to be a year older and slower. However, my superpower is resilience. I will continue until I get to where I want to be, provided haters don’t destroy the world. Tuesday was my sister’s birthday. She is 12 years older than me, she had a special birthday party. I attended because they had a cake for me too. The rest of the week went as planned, I went to work. Relatives came up from Georgia to celebrate my sister’s day. Over the weekend, I drank more than I planned to and was typically hung over. Fortunately, I have recovered enough to write this out. There were times I would have been horribly embarrassed but this time I am just unsettled. The silver lining, I didn’t hurt myself and I didn’t hurt anybody.

In writing news, I spent most of last week, dealing with fringe issues on Connection Lost. It feels like it is developing into something more and I am working on it. I want by the end of September to have the roughest draft ever but it will be complete 25-30k words. I always stop short at 10k and that is not good. Because of this, I have pulled out the outlines and gone over them again. For clarity, there is a GMC outline and a line outline. I have not decided on which was better. What I did notice is that both outlines were incomplete. I don’t get into the plotter/panster quandry. When I have thought about it, I am somewhere in the middle and neither title has helped me complete a draft. For next week I will be working on the outlines, the 5 W’s and 1 H’s, the primary plot line, subplots, major twists, and resolutions.

It might feel like I am starting at zero, but if that is what has to happen, it will be done. This story has been with me for five years. Many might think I should give it up and try something else and I have but I always come back to this one. Perseverance is another superpower I have to cultivate. I have written about it before to no avail. I have not given up on the other ideas, I just want this one to be complete, edited, and published on Amazon or Kobo or someplace else.

I can’t write about what I am reading or watching. A lot of media that has passed my eyes have blended together and not what good it would do. The few things that have stood out, My Friend Superman on Max, Extra Credits on YouTube, and various campaigns by Critical Role. They have a lot of content it is hard to know where to start. Extra Credits has content that is 11 years old or more but still good for creating. I got into watching Critical Role on YouTube b/c of the Legend of Vox Machina on Amazon, not Stranger Things. No shade on that series, I just never went back to it after season 1. There are many good series that I have put on pause because as a writer, I decided to focus on my own instead of diving deeper into someone else’s content.

That is the goal for this week and most of September. When November comes around I will be dusting off another Novel Concept Outline and do my best to complete that draft in 30 days. This story will be in the editing phase.

This is all I have to write about my life and writing life. I hope it is entertaining and inspirational. I hope you are all doing well. Remember to be kind.

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