The end of a month is always a busy time for me. Technically, it’s the start of the month that’s the big time-suck, but the end falls right before the beginning, and so there are a lot of things that kinda all stack up in the few days between one calendar month and the next.
One of the big things is planning on what I’m going to say to my Patrons over on Patreon, other than the usual “Thank you so much!”, which is always true and always worth repeating. Being a writer is lonely, hard work, but knowing there are even a few people out there who support me and my work and think I should be doing more of it is really, really important.
But other than that, it’s nice to have a chance to reach out to potential new readers/supporters, let people know what I’m doing (I mean, the answer is always “writing”, but what I’m writing is very different from week to week, much less month to month!). And there was that period of time that I released a whole series of videos answering what it’s like to be a writer for my educator/editor friend to use in a series of writing lectures… that was pretty cool (albeit a lot of work).
This month I don’t think… oh, wait! That’s not true, this month coming up I have the exciting news about the writers group that I founded and am working to maintain throughout the pandemic (never an easy task). So that’s something I can talk about, other than the novel.
Anyway, I should get back to it… class in a little bit, followed by all the writing!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!