January Recap and February Fun

Though it lasted approximately 5,000 years, January finally came to an end. Seriously, I don’t know why January has to be so January about everything every year. It’s like an entire month of Mondays, and this January was particularly awful for just so many damn reasons.

So many damn awful reasons that it feels…damn awful for me to be here saying, “Look at what I did this month!” But I guess…look at what I did this month?

Here’s the more specific breakdown of word counts and other project-related whatevers:

Two notable things in the WIP department. First, I somehow manage to add 421 words to the Terrible Romance Sequel—a manuscript that’s been in the drawer since the end of 2025. And what’s more—I honestly have no idea what I added/changed. Here’s hoping it was good, though. I’ll find out this month…(more on that in a minute.)

The second notable thing is the progress made on Full Circle. This project has been in the doldrums for a while now, as I spent 2025 attempting (and failing) to figure out how to fix some issues with the story. I eventually stopped looking at it altogether last year, but took it out of the drawer in January, I muddled my way through some changes, found a place for my long-desired and totally necessary Dancing Queen reference (IYKYK), and accomplished enough that I felt okay saying that this latest round of edits/revisions was complete…for now. I’m not convinced that one of the storylines is where it needs to be yet, but the manuscript needs to sit in a drawer for a while so I can go back and look at it later (probably not before May) with fresher eyes and see how it feels then.

So that was January. Here’s what’s on the books for February:

Of note here:

The Terrible Romance Sequel: This is meant to be the ‘final’ read-through with an eye toward publication in April. I won’t be able to start reading it until after Valentine’s Day, so I don’t know if I’ll finish the read-through before the end of the month, but we’ll see. I also don’t know how I’ll feel about the story, so that’ll be interesting, too.

The dreaded public speaking engagement: Yep. For some reason, I was asked to give a presentation/workshop-type thing to a local writers group…and for some reason, I said yes? I’ll be talking about Deep POV. In theory, anyway. I suppose there’s an equal (if not greater than…) chance that I’ll just freeze, deer-in-headlights style, or faint, or something instead. But I guess we’ll see what happens there, too.

So, that’s what’s happening in my corner of the universe. Tune in next month to find out how it all went. Or didn’t go, as the case may be.

I am, incurably, still me, after all.

Thanks for stopping by. Be safe and well, all.