Howdy folks! How are we all doing today?

I’ve had a pretty good May, I worked on writing for about 55 hours. I edited about 134,000 words and wrote about 23,000 words, I think. It was definitely in that ballpark. The time spent, and words edited last month makes up about a third of my total output for the year to date. Granted, I had a fair amount of leave last month, and with the shifts I did have many of them were mid-morning or midday starts and I’m definitely more productive in the mornings.

I won’t match that this month. This month I’ve got no leave booked but so far it seems like I’ve still got less early morning shifts, which does help with writing.

Those 55 hours weren’t just going over the same things with no end. I made significant progress with War Child and my mech story, including deciding on an ending for War Child. I’ve probably got the best feel for both War Child and the mech story that I’ve ever had, with the mech story only really needing one significant element built out more. I’m about halfway through an edit pass of it, and then I think one more after that and it’ll be done and ready for betas 🙂

Mech is a secondary project though, and while I’m letting War Child simmer I’ve gone back to Penal Earth 2, which itself has been simmering. I’ve zipped through a lot of words on this one so far, but I’m still anxious of the ending. It still feels weak and underwhelming. I’ve got a few ideas on how it can be improved but I think I need a fair amount of time to think it through until I’m happy with what’s going to make it work better.

Right, I’m off to work now. I hope everyone has an awesome day!