Got 1,068 words done on High Tide today in between spackling and painting my office window in preparation for the installation of cordless blinds, and that felt pretty damned good. Clichéd as it sounds, I really think I needed the break to let the creative well refill.

It also helps that I came to an important realization about one of the characters—I was writing him as kind of a himbo, and himbos bore me. So I changed his personality a bit, gave him a much more rounded background and intelligence, and suddenly my interest in the story surged. Of course I’ll have to go back and make sure I edit these changes into the earlier chapters (as well as an additional character), but hey, I already know that this book is going to need a buttload of editing so hey, what’s one more item for the punch list?

After I was done with that and the wondow, I got some work done on my January chapter for my Patreon (this is the contemporary paranormal romcom with a Regency MMC that I came up with last year). It’s so far outside of both Nicola M and Natasha’s wheelhouses that I can’t really publish it under either name (I learned my lesson with To My Muse and Grading the Curve about sticking to reader expectations), so it’s going to be exclusive for my Patreon members.

And finally, I need to schedule some time to go in and edit keywords for all of my books to add the term “romantasy,” blessings be on whatever group of readers made that a viable trend. The fun, it never stops around here.