Hey, hey, everyone!!!! Isabelle Knight here again with a Christmas update (as you could tell from my title)! If you’ve been up to date on all my blogs and stuff, then you will know that I am working on a Christmas collab and my own book!!! Which is the start of a brand new series (hopefully).
My goal for December was to write 60K words and it is currently December 20, and I’ve written around 40K, I guess? Which is awesome!!! I really hope I can make the goal, but we’ll see. (after doing calculations). AAAAAAAAAAAAAND I just realized that would require 2 thousand words a day. Yikes! Doable but only if I stop procrastinating and get myself back in the flow.
Plus, it’s been super busy at this moment. And I probably won’t even be able to write tomorrow because I’m taking a trip back home to bake all the Christmas goodies!!! Oh, maybe I can update you on the baking process! I plan to make blueberry bread, blueberry crisp, apple fritters, and chocolate chip cookie bars!!!
As for writing, the end is far. I have no idea where the story’s going to go next. Like Sabrina Carpenter said in her song, “I can only see two steps ahead of me.” Or in my case, once the scene is done, I have no clue what I’m gonna do. XD So it’s basically rewriting the book because I led it off in so many wrong directions in the first draft.
Hopefully I can get it figured out and then get to sorting it out and just making it neat. But right now, it’s a chaotic jumble. And I really need to figure out what’s gonna happen next too, so half the time might be spent with my brain going “GAH WHAT’S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT?!”
Hehe… Being a pantser is thrilling (I hate that word now. Queen Scarlet from Wings of Fire ruined that word for me. Oh, and yes, I am currently reading Wings of Fire: The Lost Heir. Or rather, listening to the audiobook), but it can also be kinda torturous and scary. And on top of not knowing what’s going to happen next, I also procrastinate.
(A few hours later)
Okay, so I wrote the first half of this post like… three hours ago, and I’m back with a new update! I just (maybe) reached one of the final stages of my story! There’s still a way to go, but I’ve made progress! The only thing I’m worried about is that for the story, it feels like it drags and nothing important happens. There. I’ve admitted it. Future Isabelle will fix it… right? (Though she will be very mad at me)
And I’m also stealing from Keeper of the Lost Cities here so… hehe… Okay, not stealing, just drawing a few ideas from it. My word count so far is 42,962 out of my 60K goal which is amazing!!! Maybe I can actually finish this!!!
As for what I am currently reading, here’s the list below!
- The 39 Clues by Rick Riordan
- The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
- The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittany Ryan
- Root Karbunkulus and the Miist of Kalliope by KR Lilac
- Wings of Fire: The Lost Heir by Tui T. Sutherland
I’m enjoying a lot of these so far!!!!!!!!!! The Lost Heir is thrilling, as Queen Scarlet would say. But yeah! Thanks so much for coming, and I’ll see you again in the next post!!! Merry Christmas!
Isabelle
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