Hanging With Cats & Writing Progress
The Alaska Cat Cafe & Writing Progress
TLDR!
Here’s what to expect from this month’s very short update:
I spent some time hanging out with cats.
Outline completed, and looking forward to getting writing.
Accountability report
I discovered a great place to hang out with cats.
January was a very different month from December. Instead of power outages, high winds, and snow problems, we had a much milder few weeks. Yes, there was still snow, but a lot less of it.
So, I had a lot more free time. Instead of digging cars out of the snow, changing dead batteries, or dealing with power cuts, I was hanging out with cats.
Wasilla has this wonderful place called the Alaska Cat Cafe, where you can hang out with a whole bunch of cats, for a reasonable price. In their own words:
The Alaska Cat Café is a full-service coffee shop with delicious food and drinks that bridges local rescue groups and cat lovers, creating a welcoming space to enjoy coffee, meet adoptable cats and kittens, and support community adoptions.
The Alaska Cat Café is here to support local cat rescues. 100% of all profits of the café go to our rescue partners! Currently we are partnered with The Cat Cottage and Alaska Krazy Kats Rescue hope to have more partners soon.
I’d been meaning to take Sandi there for months, but either didn’t have time or forgot to check into where they’re located. Then, I was doing some banking while Sandi was doing her physical therapy, and I happened to spot them across the street.
Needless to say, when I picked Sandi up, we rushed over there and spent an amazing hour just hanging out with some of their cats. The cafe is at the front of the venue, and there’s a back room where you can hang out with the cats. Some of them are residents, while others are available for adoption.
I’d forgotten how relaxing it was just being around cats, and we had so much fun that we went back a few days later. The interesting thing is that it got my creative juices flowing, and each time we visited, I went home and worked on some writing.
An outline completed
That writing time, and the cat-induced boost to my creativity, have definitely paid off over the last month.
I’m pleased to announce that I have finally completed the outline for “Shadows Over Seattle: Book 1 - Of Wolves & Men.” I think it’s very solid in terms of plot and character development, and I can’t wait to get started on Chapter One!
That outline currently sits in a Word document and is a very meaty 38 pages in length. Some of the chapter notes are meatier than others, so I’m not sure what my target page count is going to look like. But that’s how it usually ends up being for my short stories, so I’m not surprised to see it going the same way for the first novel.
Writing/Editing Update
Things are very much where we left them at the end of last month.
I’ve finalized the outline for “Shadows Over Seattle: Book 1 - Of Wolves & Men”.
I’m running a read-through pass on the “Shadows Over Seattle: Prequels 1-6” audiobook. There are still a few things I need to fix before publishing it.