#ScribesAndMakers Mar 31. How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month?

March went super fast. Got a lot of work done for #JulesNVera, redid the cover of #TheMindOnFire, and visited my first book con ever.

I can't believe tomorrow is April 1st. One quarter of 2025 if already gone?

Plans for April: Clean up some accounting stuff, hopefully get #JulesNVera done, and write a little for fun.

Breathe. Breathe more.

#scribesandmakers 31st March 2025. How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month?

It went bloody well. After a 16-month relapse during which I got not one new word written, finally the dam burst and this has been my third consecutive month of good work. Next month, I want it to continue, please.

#ScribesAndMakers March 31: How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month?

This Month: Made my major objectives. Volume 3 is complete and the last chapters are in a mid-edting drafts. They didn't reach beta quality, but instead I got the beginning section of Vol. 4. As one character put it they have gone from the frying pan into the fire. (Again the theme that no good deed goes unpunished)

Also added a final polish beta reader. @gahlearner .

Next month: Def. all of volume 3 in beta 2 drafts. (That is the final polishing stage.) I want to see the plague forest arc complete and in post beta 1 drafts. And the start of the cult chase arc started, as well as more foreshadowing and tension building around Tomo's idenity crises.

#ScribesAndMakers 31. How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

I still have not touched the website, but the text of volume 2 is nearly where I wanted it to be. I need to flesh out a couple of scenes and then do an end-to-end editing pass to tune the story arc before I hand the full text over to my beta reader.

#ScribesAndMakers March 31: How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month?

I got 42K words written and restarted working on learning drawing despite trying to get my school semester done. I'm going to have to make some adjustments, though.

In How The Heck Can I Listen to Music While I Write? by Charlie Jane Anders, she mentions a personal rule of not using the internet during business hours. I think I'm going to need to adapt a version of that rule.

Here are the April questions for #ScribesAndMakers. I'm posting them too because I want to pin them to my profile.
You can also go to https://write.as/scribesandmakers/ and see the questions there for easier reading. Check the site out, we have information about the hashtag and our recurring games there too, and soon our community knowledge base.

#ScribesAndMakers 3/31 How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

Eh, it went okay. I made progress, but it's going more slowly these days than I'd prefer.
Not much for that, though - life is very lifey at the moment. Since I don't have a hard and fast deadline it's not a huge problem.

Just gotta keep focusing on how close I'm getting. One more pass - one more round of edits - and then I'm DONE.
Sometimes I'm not sure I'm gonna make it, though But gotta keep going.

#ScribesandMakers Day 31: How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month?

I made some progress with my poetry compilation, and I've been drawing more. Unfortunately, the second half of the month saw some curveballs in life, but hopefully those will be resolved in April.

#ScribesAndMakers March31. How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month?

The month and the revisions went well. I'm very close to finishing up the book and it should be published soon. That might be the goal for April. Oh yeah, and here's the cover.

#ScribesAndMakers 31
How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

March was good. The arrival of Spring provided inspiration and motivation.

I'm two chapters farther along in the novel, finished two short stories/podcasts, and crafted four flash pieces. Somewhere in there I also pulled together a sermon.

The woodshop saw some simple canvas stretchers for my wife's art projects as well as a few tool handles. Also now numerous chisels, planes, and saws are stupid-sharp.

#ScribesAndMakers 31
review

From a writing standpoint, this was my best month of 2025 thus far. I published to Kobo, made amazing editing headway (well over 200 hrs), & wrote copious notes for my Talma Loyal sequel.

All while maintaining my blog.

Next month, I expect to finish the Book3 edit. That will initiate the sprint to publishing Book2, A River in Each Hand, in May or June.

Experienced now, I look forward to refining my publishing process.

#ScribesAndMakers Mar 31
How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

Ehhhh mostly not. Though I got a lot of writing-adjacent things (speaking engagements, swag, promo) done.

#ScribesAndMakers 3/31 How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

March is over already?!

It went OK. I've been busy with work and travel and haven't really had much time for creative endeavors. Despite that, I wrote some new poems and submitted a few for publication. I almost finished a play - hoping to get Act V written this month - but didn't have much time for fiction aside from that.

#ScribesAndMakers Mar 31
How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

I made some good progress on the WIP, but I am always frustrated not to have made more progress in less time. This is definitely a me being my greatest critic thing. But it's also harder for me to sit for hours & just write like I did when I was younger. Now my brain kind of flatlines & needs breaks, which is part of my frustration I guess.

#ScribesAndMakers 31 Mar: How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

I did get some writing done in March, despite worrying about a sick and dying cat through most of the month. That's something.

#ScribesAndMakers 31. How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

Mostly, yes. What I didn't accomplish (set the release date for Garden of Rotten Roses) was actually because of my cover artist, who didn't finish the cover yet. He's really good, but also really slow lol

But yeah, other than that, I worked on what I wanted: transferred GoRR to Kindle Create, published a new Eternal Flame chapter every Saturday, and went back to Book 3 of WWL.

#ScribesAndMakers 31 Mar - How did it go? Were you able to work on the things you wanted to?

March went well.

I attended my first author fair and loved it.

Beta readers are starting to turn in the book and asking about the next one.

I managed to animate the narrator scenes (aside from composition) for the Flutter Flower Field animated musical. Still need 80% of the work to be done (Swift and the fox and the wind and the compositing), but I am speeding up as I learn and work things out.