Tiktok Time!

Yes, it's been almost three months since my last blog post. Sorry about that. I promise I've been diligently working on revisions of Dead As Dreams. I'm getting so close to the end! But now it might get to 110k words. That's epic fantasy for you.

Anyway, though I haven't posted much here, I've finally dipped my toe into Tiktok! You can find me there under alexagravewriter.

I'm posting three videos per week for now, one every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Editing the videos have been rather fun - it feeds that visual creativity itch - lol.

The videos also don't just revolve around writing. I decided it would be best to post about anything related to me. So writing, reading, fantasy (unicorns, of course), cats (oh, yeah, we got a new kitten in September), gaming, crocheting, witchiness... I even posted a video with all my DOOM boxes.

The range of videos will likely upset the Tiktok algorithm, and I won't get many views due to that. Which means not much help with promoting my writing. But I don't want it to feel like a chore. My goal is to have fun with it. Or I know I'll stop doing it.

I have a couple writing related ones below, if you'd like to take a look! And please follow me if you're on Tiktok as well.

@alexagravewriter About Me in sprarkly gel pens and colored pencils. I wanted my first Tiktok to be creative and colorful! #writertok #booktok #aboutme #writer #author #creativity #drawing #fantasy #fantasyfiction ♬ People Power - CK

@alexagravewriter Dreams In Shadow is the first short story in my Fortunes of Fate series! Interconnected but separate stories. 7 of a planned 78 titles currently published - one for each tarot card! #writertok #booktok #fantasy #fantasyfiction #shortstory #series #writing #book ♬ Aglow (Intro) - Slowed Down Version - Karamel Kel

@alexagravewriter September daily word count progress! #writertok #authortok #writer #author #writing #revision #wordcount #fantasy #fantasyfiction #book ♬ Anywhere (Road Trippin') - anamē

OK, OK, I'll also post one of the videos with our new kitten, Orion. The Trio of Terror have dubbed him The Interloper.

@alexagravewriter Fuzzybutt Friday! Orion vs. The Track Ball. #writertok #kittentok #kittensoftiktok #kitten #tabbycat #tabbycatsoftiktok #cat #catsoftiktok ♬ Harpoon - Whales

NaNo 2018 Check-In and Cat Videos

I didn't really want to write this post. At all. If you watched the tracker from the initial NaNo post this year, you'll know why.

NaNoWriMo and November were a complete failure. And to top it off, I don't feel like I have a good excuse. There was a week in there where I wasn't feeling the best. Plus Thanksgiving, along with Black Friday (online shopping only, thank you very much), also sucked up a week. Planning presents for the kids (my shopping for them is DONE -- that's a relief). Yeah, when I say that, I kind of wonder what happened to the month.

Maybe it's just the year. I mean, it started out wretched, so the pervasive feelings from the beginning of the year are just lingering at the end of it. All of November, I just wanted to say, "Screw it! I just want to sit down and plan 2019."

And that's what I'm going to do in December. That's all I'm going to do. Plan next year, and have the optimism that it will be a much better year for writing. And I'll do a lengthier assessment of 2018 in my next post. (How depressing is that going to be? Ugh.)

OK, I'm going to throw myself a bone now. NaNoWriMo 2018 wasn't a complete failure. I revised about 1600 words. That's 1600 more words than I had before November started, so it's a win, even if a small one.

But so this isn't a terrible and utterly depressing post (like the next one just might be), I needed to throw in kitties. More importantly, kitty videos! And well, a Nightshade picture because I don't have a video of him -- it seems the girl cats in the house are more entertaining at times. Shade is a bit too laid back.

If you want to see Part 2 of the second one, just pop over to my YouTube Channel. It's kind of sparse, but I may add more kitty videos in the future! Enjoy Rikku and Sylph below. =) Goofball fuzzballs.