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Updated profile again. I know itā€™s been a while, but a baby is hard work! Weā€™ve finally got a pretty good routine going and I have a couple of hours at night while the baby sleeps to work on my writing. My goal is to finish ā€œSongs of Innocenceā€ and have it published. Iā€™m shooting for a minimum of 50,000 words (currently 17,780) as from what Iā€™ve researched thatā€™s kind of the minimum for a full length novel. I have a rough outline in my head and given the story I want to tell and what needs to happen, I donā€™t think Iā€™ll have any trouble meeting (and probably exceeding) that amount. 
          	
          	Iā€™ve debated publishing some of what I have already here and building interest/a following. On one hand, I donā€™t know if I want the pressure of ā€œpublish another chapter soon please!ā€ Because of my personal situation of having a baby and sometimes I may not write for a while. But on the other, I do want to start sharing a semi rough draft to people and putting it out there for feedback, etc. It also might motivate me to keep at it consistently if people are reading and actively wanting more. I donā€™t know. Personally I like to read a completed story instead of having to wait for more chapters, but not everyone is like that. Iā€™ll think on it and if anyone has any thoughts feel free to comment below!

words_are_my_only

Updated profile again. I know itā€™s been a while, but a baby is hard work! Weā€™ve finally got a pretty good routine going and I have a couple of hours at night while the baby sleeps to work on my writing. My goal is to finish ā€œSongs of Innocenceā€ and have it published. Iā€™m shooting for a minimum of 50,000 words (currently 17,780) as from what Iā€™ve researched thatā€™s kind of the minimum for a full length novel. I have a rough outline in my head and given the story I want to tell and what needs to happen, I donā€™t think Iā€™ll have any trouble meeting (and probably exceeding) that amount. 
          
          Iā€™ve debated publishing some of what I have already here and building interest/a following. On one hand, I donā€™t know if I want the pressure of ā€œpublish another chapter soon please!ā€ Because of my personal situation of having a baby and sometimes I may not write for a while. But on the other, I do want to start sharing a semi rough draft to people and putting it out there for feedback, etc. It also might motivate me to keep at it consistently if people are reading and actively wanting more. I donā€™t know. Personally I like to read a completed story instead of having to wait for more chapters, but not everyone is like that. Iā€™ll think on it and if anyone has any thoughts feel free to comment below!

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215
          
          That's the number of stories I've read on Wattpad in the 4 years I've been on it.  Wow.
          
          In the meantime, I've added a small amount to "Songs of Innocence" but not really had a lot of time to work on it or any other stories.  I've got another marathon writing session planned for the end of the month where I basically lock myself in my house for a weekend, get drunk and write 10K+ words or so on a story/stories.  I write best when I'm drunk and listening to emo/EDM music.  Find what works for you, right?

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Ok Iā€™m so excited to announce Iā€™m beta testing for @adarkgreytshirt on her story ā€œForever Halloweenā€ and if you guys havenā€™t already, you should check it out! Itā€™s an amazingly well written Kaylor (sort of) story and Iā€™m helping with translating it as a native English speaker and making little tweaks here and there. Iā€™m super honored to be doing this as Iā€™ve looked up to this author since I first joined Wattpad about 4 years ago. 
          
          Also theyā€™re teaching me some Portuguese so thatā€™s cool. 

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Writing marathon complete!
          
          15K on ā€œSongs of Innocenceā€
          
          6.1K on ā€œA Woman Like Meā€
          
          So stretch goal and regular goal, not too shabby. 
          
          Also Iā€™m helping another author with editing and Iā€™m super excited about it, cause theyā€™re not so unknown and Iā€™ve always admired their work. Iā€™ll wait for them to announce it first if they choose to but either way Iā€™m super pumped!