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Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- Nanowrimo was pretty awesome for me! I wrote 50,050 on The Revelation, my Nano project, and a further 30K on side projects. Not too shabby.

- I edited 28 pages of a Christmas Gift novella for my newsletter subscribers. This will be delivered to your inboxes right before Christmas!!

- I wrote 13,150 of Pride & Joy, my f/f witchy murder book. I probably won't release this until I have more than one book ready to go, to cut down on time between releases.

In my life:

- Writing took over 99% of my life last month so I'm hoping to catch up on All The Things. You may have noticed my content on this blog is sorely lacking. Hoping to fix this in the next month!

Discovery Found or Lesson Learned:

It's literally impossible to do everything. Sometimes I think everyone needs a reminder of this little fact. You can't do everything at once.

What have you written this week?
~Saruuh

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Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- I've edited 80 pages of The Powers of Callaire, and I am FINISHED. It's off with betas now and then it's ready for release. Just a few weeks' time, folks!!

- I second drafted 29 pages of my Johanna short, a Legend Mirror companion novella, and finished this round of edits. Next I'll add these changes to the manuscript, and then the story'll probably sit waiting for release. Since it takes place during the fifth Legend Mirror book, that could be a while... but there aren't too many spoilers to discourage me from an earlier release. We'll see!

- I wrote 1.5K of a Minnie short story, which will follow the Legend Mirror book four and preempt the events of book 5!

In my life:

- I've turned my attention to The Lux Guardians, and I'm rereading the first two books so I can write the final two. Plus doing essential research. Slowly, slowly getting there!

On the internet, this week I found useful:

- Been too busy to browse unfortunately!

A Book I've Loved Lately:

Lush, tense, and dangerous romance in the Russian court. It's free for kindle so make sure you get a copy!

What have you written this week?
~Saruuh

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Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- I've edited 44 pages of The Powers of Callaire, plus wrote around 2K of rewrites. I announced the release date of this, in case you missed it. August 16th!

- I second drafted 28 pages of my Johanna short, a Legend Mirror companion novella. To say this is my side project, I'm pretty chuffed with my progress.

- I planned the next Legend Mirror book. It's gonna be different than the other four, that's for sure.

In my life:

- I'm getting super tired and ready to be done with POWERS.

On the internet, this week I found useful:

- Nada. I've not been on the internet so much this week.

A Book I've Loved Lately:

I think I love this even more than Wicked Lovely..? Is that possible? I didn't think so.

What have you written this week?
~Saruuh

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Welcome to Words & Wonders, a weekly journal of writing updates, links I've found useful or interesting, and book recommendations. I hope W&W will prove to be useful to you writers out there as well as offering an insight into my writing progress for my readers. Don't forget to leave a comment with your own writing progress!

In the Writing Cave, this week:

- I've second drafted 111 pages of The Powers of Callaire and finished this stage! I moved onto big picture edits and a couple rewrites (40% edited, 1.5K rewritten so far) and when this is done, I'll be close to the finish line. I'll have an announcement about the release date VERY SOON.

- I started second drafting the TLM short I wrote the other week (6 pages edited). I'm gonna refer to it as the Johanna Short, named for the main character, who is named for Johanna Konta, my British tennis bae.

- I wrote another 2.5K random of the NA UF dragon story I'm definitely never gonna finish. For a few days I considered writing it for real but I have more important things (Lux Guardians, Legend Mirror) to turn my attention to. Maybe when TLG is wrapped up!!

In my life:

- Work, work, working

On the internet, this week I found useful:

- This interesting post on authors marketing/release strategies

A Book I've Loved Lately:

These books are hella awesome urban fantasy, with a tonne of new twists to the genre and swoony, complicated relationships. These books are sneaky - you won't see any of the shocks coming. And they're NA genre fic! Score!

What have you written this week?
~Saruuh