Musing on May, Hailing June

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Greetings from the cave!

(I believe that shall be my greeting from now on....) 

It has been another month of impatient watching and waiting, fits and starts, and otherwise a grinding "progress". Whomever said that the journey is half the fun obviously didn't suffer from cabin fever at the time.

But what has been happening in my corner? Let's take a look?




1. I helped edit Lia's first poetry collection. I'm excited for her to publish it!

2. An "emergency" order from Amazon resulted in me getting two new DVDs (Anastasia and Princess Diaries 2) and a new book (Redwall #1). No regrets. Though my sister can attest that the choosing of the latter was a huge existential crisis.

3. Shattered Chandelier is about 3/4 done with the first draft. I very much doubt that I will edit it any time soon, but some of the later chapters I'm not 100% happy with.

4. Created a couple more playlists on Spotify. One was a college playlist and another is a new writing playlist for non-fantasy, non-instrumental music. Once I figure out this embed thing, I'll start sharing some of them....

5. TWR's beta-reading is still occurring. So far, the world-building, imagery and some characters need to be beefed up in this next draft. I'm looking forward to July's edits with some anxiety.



For Working by Candlelight, I wrote 1 post: How To Drink like a Lady. Future content includes a post about the relationship between the Jewish and Catholic religions, a post on breads, and a secret post!

For The Rebelling Muse, I wrote 3 posts: Introducing Soul SistersEnd of Camp NaNo April 2020, and Taggy Tuesday: #awesomebloggertag. Future content includes 3 tags from the Avender sisters, and a review of the TV series The Chosen!

For The Cat in the Barnyard, I wrote 1 post: Grass vs. Grain Starters: A Summary Let me know what topics you would like to see on this blog!

For Rebellious Writing, I wrote no posts.

For Maidens for Mary, I contributed to April's Wrap-Up.




Goal #1 (TWR): It's in the hands of beta readers for the next two months and I'm sitting here anxiously waiting for the results. I'm already knowing that I need to do some more world building and fix some minor things in the plot....

Goal #2 (Platform): The latest news is the development of the brand....which is still in progress.

Goal #3 (April NaNo): Drafting has been following it's usual slow course and the story is about three-quarters done. You can view the on-going progress on Wattpad HERE.

Goal #4 (NaNo): No progress.

Goal #5 (Movies): No progress.

Goal #6 (Library): No progress. Unfortunately, my state is on lockdown due to the you-know-what, so no trips for me......

Goal #7 (Vlogs): FINISHED. You can view the Fandoms one HERE and the Bucket List one HERE.



How was your May, m'dears? How have you been coping with the quarantine? Chat with me in the comments below! 

Scribbingly yours, 

Catherine 

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6 comments

  1. My May was a little chaotic, but I'm excited for June! And argh, I cannot wait for quarantine to be lifted a little more so I can get back to Mass...but it looks like where I live it won't be for another month at least


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  2. Agh so to embed playlists...I hope you don't have a chromebook xD because if you do, you can't embed. But if you have a regular computer: Go to your playlist, hit the three little dots where it's like "start radio", "delete playist", etc, and bring your mouse down to the little drop menu marked "Share". One of the options will be "embed with HTML", so click that, and then go to the HTML in the blog post, paste the code, and return to the body text. It won't be visible in a draft post, but once you publish it, you'll be able to see it. I hope that helps xD

    Sounds like you had a pretty decent month despite lockdown! I hope June gets better too and you pmake tons of progress on those goals...

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  3. Having folks beta read your book can be so nerve-wracking! I regret not being able to help with yours, but things have been so busy...got a bunch of new animals on the farm, and we're finishing up the barn roof repairs and are getting even more animals *sobs* But yeah, it's all good!

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  4. Oh, you got a copy of Anastasia? That's one of my favorites and my sisters and I quote if all the time! What did you think of it? And Princess Diaries 2?

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  5. I been ordering a few too many things off of Amazon lately. XD
    Glad you had a good month!

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  6. My May was much busier than I think my April was. March stretched forever, but I CAN"T BELIEVE IT"S JUNE ALREADY! I Have been working a lot this whole time, so that might be why.
    I nominated you for the Mystery Blogger Award. You can check it out here. :D
    https://geoturtle.com/mystery-blogger-award/

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