Uncategorized – Alexa Preece

Happy 2018!

Just a little note to wish everyone reading this a very Happy New Year!

I hope 2018 is a good, happy, healthy year for you and yours, and you achieve whatever you set out to over the next twelve months.

I don’t have any specific writing goals this year, other than to edit and rework the stories I’ve already written and hopefully take a step closer to getting them published. I’ve got other stories brewing in my mind but none of them appear to be ready to flow just yet.

For non-writing related resolutions, this year I resolve to be more in the moment. Life can be fleeting, and I’d like to make the most of the time I have and appreciate the little things more. One such thing is the beauty of a simple sunrise; it happens every day but when you’d stop to watch it, it really can be breathtaking. These photographs are my first step in doing so, taken this morning as the sun rose on the first day of 2018.

Here’s to making good memories this year, and hoping they help us through the rockier times that life throws at us.

Happy New Year, lovelies xx

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Belated Happy Christmas..

If you celebrate. And if you don’t, I hope you had a lovely time anyway.

This year’s been one of mixed blessings, and I’m sure I’m not the only one looking forward to saying goodbye to 2016.

I only hope 2017 is the improvement so many of us are looking forward to!

Wishing everyone reading this all the best in 2017, with everything you need for a happy and successful year – good health, good friends, lots of luck and lots of love.

Take care, and see you next year,

Alexa x

General Writing, Uncategorized

So. 2016 word count so far.

The novel is progressing well. Maybe not 50000-words-in-a-month well, but hey ho. That’s the way it goes sometimes.

I’m happy with the development. It doesn’t feel rushed. I’m building up to the big ‘turning point’ moment but it’s not quite there yet.

That’s okay.

So far this year, I’ve written somewhere between 74,198 (the first LWL story) and 175,224 words (LWL1, LWL2 so far & the original third story in a dust-gathering trilogy that spawned the whole thing back in March) this year.

That’s quite a lot.

Maybe not for someone who can write full-time, who doesn’t have a full-time job, family commitments and other silly life factors that get in the way.

For me, though? 175,000+ words over the course of an almost year is good.

There’ll be more before the end of the year, obviously, as there’s still some of November and all of December to go, but even if there wasn’t?

I can live with that.

It’s 175,000+ words more than any of my non-writer friends has written.

It’s 175,000+ words more than any of my colleagues, who think I’m odd for preferring nights in to nights out getting spending my hard earned money on extortionately priced alcohol, have written.

I may not hit my NaNoWriMo target this year, but I’m still happy with what I’ve achieved. My writing may not pay the bills yet (to be fair, I’d kind of have to let someone else read it first for it to do that…) but it’s something I’ve kept doing through thick and thin, something I need to do in order to cope with everything else that’s going on, and I’m happy with that.

I hope my fellow writers out there are happy with their word count achievements, too.