After over a year of being stalled out on novel writing (read: it was like pulling fangs out of pissed off vampires to get any novel words written), July was a lovely and awesome change.
I wrote half a novel in 26 days. 
(This is me being restrained and coherent. Because, y'know, otherwise there would be just incoherent squeeing going on. *cough* It doesn't translate well on screen, okay?)
GOALS SET IN JULY
- edit the dream horror novella/serial thing for submission
(Got it done on the 31st with hours to spare.)
- continue working on novels. Maybe one day I will actually get somewhere on NF.
(This ended up being so much WIN, I'm still bouncy.)
- finish another started short
(Nope.)
- write a new short (possibly the B&B idea)
(I, er, actually didn't write any new shorts whatsoever in July. A first so far this year.)
- polish up at least three stories for submission(Well. Technically I meant "besides the ship serial", so really, I only did one. But! It paid off, since "Queen for a Day" was accepted for M-BRANE's QSPACE anthology.)WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
NovelsDid I mention how excited I am over this?
The new novel I started,
FERAL LEGACY, took over my brain with a delicious vengeance.
41,100 words in twenty-six days--and I'm nearly at the halfway point. I love it so much, it may possibly be illegal in some states.
Oh, and Wolf has fans. It's so cool. (Thanks,
Snazel,
Bahnree and
Sparky!)
Truly, that progress would be enough, but I also managed 2,300 words or so on RIVEN. (I didn't mean to neglect you, sweetie, but, well, the other novel is shinier. *Riven looks at Merc blankly and says nothing* Aren't you even jealous? I meant to finish ch 6... *Riven continues looking blank* Argh, never mind. *Merc mutters darkly*)
Short StoriesWhile I didn't write anything new (I'm still boggling over that), it was the month of Editing From Hell.
Let's see. Edit "They Dreamed of Dead Ships", check.
Edit "Hero's Choice", check. (This was after I panicked and realized I hadn't fixed it until I got an email asking if I'd, um, edited it. But I did manage it in two days! And I'm really happy with how it turned out. So yay.)
Edit "Queen for a Day" for the QSPACE anthology, check.
Merc's brain = ERROR: file not found.
It's amazing anything else
happened this month, given how much I was slashing words (not THAT kind of slash... I save that for Wolf's novel
).
Other writing stuffI wrote an outline and some notes for FERAL LEGACY. Yup.
Random Trend of the MonthDead people. Seriously.
I killed off most of the world's population (in the horror serial); the death toll may not be
high in FL yet, but it's
meaningful; and I got to kill rangers and old mentors in "Hero's Choice", along with, you know, lots of "good guys". 'Tis fun. Oh, and the "Queen" short is nice and violent (give someone absolute power with no consequences, and you will have blood).
*happy sigh*
OVERALL
Total word count (rounded off): 47,500 words.
Satisfaction level: we have passed out of Earth's gravitational pull. Or something.
On the blogging front, I managed new posts! After looking through the archives on the Toasted Scimitar, I re-thought my plan of re-posting until I have a chance to update the few articles I thought might be fun to revisit. (What? I like the prefix "re".)
How was your July?
~Merc
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