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August was definitely an improvement over July for me. It's still soggy and hot here in North Carolina. At least we got a lovely break in the heat that we called "False Fall Number One" where the weather was a gorgeous 70°F for most of the week.

July wound up being a bit of a reset month for me. After burning myself out on event organizing, I took some much-needed vacation and found out that I really should have taken more. I had no idea how tired or exhausted I was, and that was before all the political chaos happened.

June was... a lot. I was expecting it to be a challenging month. I was not expecting to juggle as many challenges as I did.

This month wasn't a bad month, but it wasn't a good writing month either for reasons we'll get to down in the health stuff section. I did get a lot of good reading and audiobook listening in this month though...

I'll be honest. April was an unexpectedly expensive and emotionally draining month for me. I was served up a lot of unwanted challenges while things are also starting to get busier at work.

My writing and editing were so-so this month. Here are all the reasons why! The good, the not-so-good, and the ugly...

You discover a lot about yourself during the editing process. The words you overuse ("but", "also", "brow"). The punctuation you're fond of (#emdashforlife). The time travel you inadvertently put your characters through even when your story has no time travel in it.

I hope you're having a good start to 2024. And if you're not, there's no rule that says fresh starts have to happen on a particular schedule. You could choose to have a fresh start on January 29 or even December 30 if you want to. There's nothing special about January 1.

One of the reasons this whole project is still in beta is that there are some big chunks of plot and some character things that I'm still sorting out. I spent some time this week going back and revising previous logs to include some key plot pieces and character traits I finally figured out.

I'll be honest, I still haven't quite got my writing rhythm back yet after being sick for so long. A big part of that is wanting to get out of my blasted apartment and explore things in ways I haven't been able to since before the pandemic started.

This is the ultimate list of links for Beta readers to use to access the Road of Red logs.