April wrap-up

At the start of April, I rebooted my plan for the month and monthly wrap-up posts. I didn’t have a plan for March, and so I stated with my plan for April. Here’s how April went:

My writing

• Camp NaNoWriMo – write 30,000 words
• Project Management for Writers – finish writing book 1 of 5
• Publish Project Management for Writers: Gate 1
• Project Management for Writers – start writing book 2 of 5
• The Beast Within – finish entire detailed outline

My Camp NaNo project was also my first project management book, so neither of those were completed. However, my Camp NaNo target word-count for the month was 30,000, and I did write around 40,000 words over all of my projects, including some for the project management book.

Instead of writing the project management book, I faffed with all of my existing self-published books (see below).

I also spent more time than I’d planned writing the detailed outline for The Beast Within. I got a bit stuck in the middle. But it’s best to get stuck in the middle of the outline than in the middle of the actual writing, so I didn’t beat myself up too much about that.

And in any case, by the end of the month I was writing to the new outline for The Beast Within. Big for me there.

Client work

• edit May magazine for Hong Kong client
• edit non-fiction book for Yorkshire client (but started)
• ghostwrite 3rd instalment for Greece client, book #3
• write blurb for Greece client, book #3
• proofread May magazine for Hong Kong client
• ghostwrite 1st instalment for Greece client, book #4 (well, a sort of )

Because I was busy with other stuff, I didn’t even start the editing work until the last week of the month. I’m hoping that takes only a fortnight all together, if that long.

I had a bit of an altercation with the Hong Kong client, which I won’t go into detail on here other than he read an email of mine incorrectly and didn’t think I was going to do the proofreading on time. (I would have.)

However, by the end of the month, the June/July magazine had landed for editing, along with some website work he also wanted me to check through.

After I finished the third ghostwriting, I decided to take a few days before starting the next one. So by the last week of the month, I’d started the fourth ghostwriting gig, but I hadn’t finished the first instalment

Personal

• hospital appointment 
• visit my mom before (it was on) her birthday
• lose weight

These are all self-explanatory, but by the end of the month I’d lost 4½lb.

Extras

The jobs listed above are the ones I already had in at the start of the month. By the end of the month, two more jobs had come in on top of the extras I gave myself:

• republish all of my self-published ebooks
• republish two of my self-published paperbacks 
• give the website and blog a facelift – TWICE!
• discover how to publish on WordPress straight from Classic Editor again
• reboot the alphabet adventurers 
• edit Jun/Jul magazine for Hong Kong client 

Again, these are pretty much self-explanatory.

Fitness

We also managed to go on four walks during April:

• Sherwood Forest (2.07 miles) 
• Scout Dike (1.92 miles) 
• Cleethorpes Boating Lake (2.10 miles) 
• Kingsbury Water Park (1.96 miles) 

Even though I had a few crosses at the end of the month, most of which will be transferred to May, I also had a lot of ticks.

Over to you …

… how did your April go?

Score: = 18 = 6