Writing
My goal for June was to finish writing my first full-length TMNT fanfiction, "Dude, This is No Vacation," which I did. (Finished WRITING it, not typing/sharing. The rest of the chapters will be posted weekly until the end of July.) The story in its entirety is 25 chapters long, with a prologue and epilogue. I have actually really struggled to write this book. It's my first full-length TMNT fanfic, as I mentioned above. I've based it off the 2007 movie, which is hard to recreate since it was a stand-alone story. It follows a Sonic fanfiction trilogy that I worked on for years and loved writing. And - here's the kicker - the more I write TMNT, the more I dislike the story I've created. OK, that's not exactly true. I like the idea of where the story is going to take me. It was just this first book that gave me trouble. I had to set up the world, work through some unfun issues with my protagonist, and build up to the more exciting stuff that will happen in Book Two. I have to admit, the last few chapters were my favorites and way easier to write because I was able to really get things going with the plot and with the characters. (No spoilers!)
Anyway, long story short, I finished my first TMNT fanfic and will spend Camp NaNo beginning to write Book Two. (I'm not revealing the title and cover yet - sorry!) My current stats for "Dude, This is No Vacation" are as follows: 3,788 reads; 298 votes; and 82 comments.
I don't even want to talk about my writing beyond fanfiction.
Reading
I read eight books this month! EIGHT! I believe that's a new personal best. I had a lot of time to kill at work this month (since no one comes in during the summer and I worked a 40-hour week to cover for my boss). Plus, CrushYourTBR was hosting a 24-hour readathon, which I totally knocked out of the park. These are the books I read this month:
- What Is He Thinking?? by Rebecca St. James (started May 31)
- A Work in Progress by Connor Franta
- Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard
- The Last Best Kiss by Claire LaZebnik
- Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay
- Dreamtreaders by Wayne Thomas Batson
- Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
- Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks by Trevor Baxendale
A Work in Progress was a book I'd wanted to get my hands on ever since it was announced. It was an amazing, inspiring read. It's incredible how much one can take away from a single chapter in the memoir, let alone the whole thing. I highly recommend this book. Project Cain was disappointing. The reviews for it called it a "killer of a thriller," and while it was about killers, I felt absolutely no thrill in reading it. There was no suspense or mystery. The author's voice was extremely apathetic. There was no dialogue. I'm not kidding. NONE. I felt very let down after finishing this novel. The Last Best Kiss and Of Beast and Beauty were both amazing love stories. I can especially relate to the protagonist in the first one.
In addition to the real books I read, I also decided to crush my Sonic Graphic Novel TBR (in honor of Sonic's birthday month), which consisted of:
I was glad to finally get through these novels and learn more about the world of Mobius pre-SGW. I had already read Evil Reborn in the comic series as it was being released, but it was neat to have it all in one place. Mogul Rising explained a lot of things I hadn't known about a major villain in the series, and each of the Sonic Selects explained bits and pieces of minor characters as well as providing entertainment with funny snippets from full-length stories.
Well...that's it for June! Sonic and Shadow's birthday month has come and gone, and with it, the June Sonic Special. I hope you enjoyed reading about the Blue Blur this month as much as I enjoyed writing about him. See you in July for more nerdy posts! And as always, celebrating 24 years of Sonic the Hedgehog, I'm up, over, and GONE!!
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