August is not exactly the end of the second quarter, but here we are. This spring was fairly productive in terms of writing, and as usual, I pay for that push during the summer. April. As I mentioned during my last check-in post, during April I tried a new challenge that I called (for no real reason at all) 30 Fools. For 30 Fools, I created a numbered list of every exercise in one of the craft books lining my writing desk, a list of every main character in an ongoing project along with a link to a fanfic prompt generator, and a list of other random half-ideas that popped into my head during the month. Each morning I used a random number generator to decide what I would write. Most days, I only wrote for about 10 minutes. At the end of the month, I had written 15,000 words, outlined 3 new short stories, and written 10 scenes that could be slotted into existing book projects. More, I left feeling really good about my ability to create and to generate ideas. Despite saying that...
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