progress for month of June thus far: 13.5k words on my first draft wheeeeee
and i’m only barely at the first plot point, my estimate for act 1 would be around 15k ish words wheeeee yayyyy
at this rate i’ll have a full-length novel (or at least a chunky novella) that I can actually publish or query to agents eeeeeeep
i’m also rly happy because I finally got scrivener! and with it I got a writing method that truly works for me 
I allow myself to write in snippets, then organize those scenes into chapters. no more writer’s block for me hehehe
most times I write linearly, but sometimes I do jump ahead or into nowhere at all! depends on my mood :))))
Currently juggling my novel project with a short story for funsies, seems like short stories somehow help motivate me to continue my longer works
Maybe I should give Scrivener another try. I still have it on trial, but like planners, it’s something I try to use and just don’t stick with. I end up back to writing in Pages or Word and having messy docs or multiples. 
I’ve been more focused on creating tools for writers than actually writing. 
Which I’m hoping will enable me in the future to have a side hustle so I can actually have time to write? Or maybe I’m a masochist.
On the bright side, I finished reading two books in the last month! That kind of counts as “progress”? 
It does have a decent learning curved but once you get used to it it’s peak.
I’m someone who is instinctively very organized because it helps my brain work, but if you’re less so it can be a challenge
I mainly use it because it helps me brutally murder my perfectionism. Cuz I can reorder things more easily and jump around I don’t have the urge take the first draft the final draft and it’s amazing.
There’s tutorials online for lots of different ways to organize things, so see if you want to give it another try. Maybe it works for you 
Or maybe, as I like to call it, simply productive procrastination? 
but good job on the books!
Well, the weather here in the UK is awful. I can’t do any work because my PC just overheats the second I so much as look at Blender (I’m in the red zone!)… so I’m back to gunning for 1mil words this year. Only, uh, 870k more to go! Light work, I’m sure.
If you ever need help with Scrivener please throw a post up here! Scrivener is basically a special interest for me at this point 