*whistles* wow it’s been too long since I’ve updated y’all on my writing progress! But to be entirely fair, I haven’t written a whole lot this summer.

Surprise! I got sick :/ . I’m better now and my baseline for health seems to be higher than before so I’m excited about that 🙂 .
Anywho: let’s get down to business!

I started a new story in March called “Red Beauty’s Cafe” and LOVE it so so so much. A cozy fairytale retelling with a baker!MC. Set in a high fantasy world and our MC’s wake up with amnesia! *bum bum BUM* I’m loving writing this story in between writing in my other wips. Our MC Blanche is a breath of fresh air—also a tad hard to write—as she’s a very gentle and mannered woman where as her companions Gaston and Owein are sarcastic little gremlins who I love so so much. It’s a great balance and it’s just a whole lot of fun.
My goal for this story is around 30-50k and I’m standing pretty at 13k.

Now A Starry Subject!
Drum roll please! *drums rolling*
I’ve finally decided on a concrete title for my beloved and it is . . .

Project: Polaris

WHooooooo!!! *confetti and baloons*

I have finally, FINALLY, caught up to draft 1 in my draft 2 and am now writing brand new words!!! *vibrates with excitement* It’s amazing and Act 2 is just *chefs kiss*. The first Act of Polaris was a chaotic road trip and now in Act 2 we are settled into a more training time and dealing with *sparkle* trauma *sparkle* time! Also getting answers to questions that came up in Act 1 and it’s just a great healing arc for Cindy and Aidan.
My goal for this story is around 150k(ISH) and I’m at 109k. 10k progress made this summer!

All in all for how bad of a health year it’s been, I’ve done pretty great with writing! *pats self on the back* It could’ve been SO much worse and yeah my expectations were so low it was easy to bypass them.

I’ve updated the progress trackers at the bottom of the page and added progress trackers for Red Beauty’s Cafe and Project: Polaris to the blog!

In other news: I’ve been upping my digital art skills and have started work on Project: Polaris’ cover art! The dream is to have illustrations for every novel of mine and for the tenth anniversary of Murder Mystery and the Gingerbread cookies to release an illustrated edition! Possibly with a brand new cover art . . . It’s only 3 years away! —which WOW that’s amazing—