Preptober Week 2: Finishing Draft Four and Outlining a New Novel

Week two of Preptober was really productive! I finally finished draft four of Project Prehistory and can let it rest for a while until it's time to start draft five (some time early next year). I also outlined a new novel, a modern Pride and Prejudice retelling. It's the perfect shorter writing project for November, as I'm aiming for somewhere between 50-60K words. Last week, I worked on the outline and started sketching out the scenes.

If you want to see what else I get up to last week, check out the writing vlog below.

Preptober Week 1: Reading Project Prehistory and Planning My New Novel

It's preptober! Although I'm not participating in NaNoWriMo, I still want to write a new novel in November, so it's time to start planning and outlining the book. I'm simultaneously finishing the edits for Project Prehistory, a coming-of-age story set in a prehistoric society. The fourth draft is almost done, and then I can concentrate on the new project, which is a modern romance and a retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (one of my favorite novels of all time). You can read more about my plans for Preptober in this blog post.

And if you're interested in how week one of Preptober went for me, you can watch the video below!

September Wrap-Up and October Goals

September reads

 

September Wrap-Up

• Finished: 5
• Continued but not finished: 2
• DNF: 1
• Total pages read: 2,205
• Average rating: 3.666

September was a great reading month! The photo does not show it, though, as three of the five books I read were e-books. There weren’t any five star reads, but September wasn’t a bad month (although I did DNF one book after just one chapter - the writing could have been edited better, and the story didn't interest me enough to keep reading).

Book Review: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Book title: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (* Amazon affiliate link)
Author: Axie Oh
Genre: Young adult fantasy
Published: February 22, 2022
321 pages
My rating: 4/5

“The myths of my people say only a true bride of the Sea God can bring an end to his insatiable wrath. When the otherworldly storms rise from the East Sea, lightning breaking the sky and water ripping up the shore, a bride is chosen and given to the Sea God. Or sacrificed, depending on the measure of your faith.”

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for a century. People believe that they are cursed by the Sea God, their former protector, and to appease his wrath, they sacrifice a young maiden to him every year. To save her brother’s beloved Shim Cheong from being sacrificed, Mina throws herself in the sea and ends up in the spirit realm. She meets the Sea God, who is sleeping an enchanted sleep, and a mysterious young man Shin, who promises to help her break the curse. But her time is running out, as a human cannot live long in the land of the spirits.