Hello friends,

I am aware that I’ve been AWOL and I am now returning with the might of another impulse project. I started a Bookstagram account and I’m slowly and inconsistently adding to my word count as well.

I hope to make this a regular part of my life but we’ll see, as all things I start when I’m manic, it may be long forgotten by the following week. I’m still hopeful, however, because I’d really like to make a big enough wave to eventually get my manuscript published.

I’ve reached 22,000 words at the moment and I am battling with a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of inadequacy. I know that’s a sizable amount of words but at the same time I’ve now increased my Nanowrimo goal to reflect a full-length Romantasy manuscript as well and the fact that I’m only 24.22% of the way through my first draft is overwhelming.

I am doing my best to build a community for myself, since I know I’ll write more and better with body doubles. I’m hopeful Bookstagram and Writergram will provide me with new faces and potentially new writing buddies.

As I start my journey as an author, I am becoming more myself and somehow falling into this stage of realizing I don’t know who the hell I am or what I’m going to do.

I still somehow think I will become a Radiologic Technician, go back to school, write full-time, and also start trying to market myself as an author? I think I can so I guess I’ll try. Pretty please go follow my Bookstagram account if you’re interested @writercecelia where I post my own authentic and cringy self in all its glory, if you didn’t get enough of me here that is.

In other news, I spent most of my Sunday living that writer’s life sitting in a coffee shop with a friend of mine and contemplating my own plots and if being a pantser is really the best path for me after all.

Do you Pants or Plot or somewhere in between? I thought I was a pantser for sure until I realized that I really didn’t know where I was going with my plot. My friend, whom I was writing with, we’ll call her Mila after the pseudonym of one of my favorite characters in Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone series. Anyways, Mila says she has a bones version of her novel and the actual version of her novel and whenever she has an idea she expands on the bones version as a way to keep track of things. I started with some gentle plotting but I like the idea of a bones novel as a companion guide to the actual novel I’m writing.

I hope you enjoyed this edition of Cece MacGee’s word vomit diary entry,

So long Gay Bowser,
Cece MacGee