So, yesterday was day one of the Rough Draft Challenge for April. I’m so excited to be participating in this challenge once again. I have big plans and I’m hoping I can stick with it this month. I’ll explain all of them below, but first, if you didn’t know, the Rough Draft Challenge is hosted by one of my favorite authors, Sarra Cannon. You can find more information about the challenge over on her Youtube Channel. 

The Rough Draft Challenge is a writing challenge where you get to pick your goal and starting April 1st, we will be trying to meet said goal throughout April. (This is the second round of this challenge. The first one was in November of 2024)

My Writing Goal for April

For the challenge, I’ll be working on the fourth book in the First to Fight series. For right now I’m calling it Project Fourth. (I’m not sharing the actual title till later; I will probably do a title reveal later this year.) I’ve chosen to go for the Ruby tier and shoot for 50k this month.  I’m also going to try to not only post updates over on my Instagram daily, but hopefully post updates here on the website. I make no promises, though. Sometimes life happens, and blog posts slip through the cracks. I will try my hardest, though, to do daily, if not weekly, updates here on the website/blog. I enjoy taking everyone along on my author journey with me. I hope you enjoy it as well.

 

Recap of the First Day of the Challenge

Yesterday, the first kicked off the first day of the challenge and typically, when I do a challenge like this, I try to get pretty far ahead that first day. With that in mind, I made my first-day goal 10k words. I was able to reach said goal and now I feel a bit at ease for the rest of the challenge. With 10k already written, I have 39,909 words left to write throughout April. Not a bad start if I do say so myself. All in all, it was a great day of writing, and getting the first words of Project Fourth added to my Scrivener document felt amazing. Starting a new project is always fun for me.

(So here’s my small recap in one image!)

 

 

Twitch Writing Streams

 

I plan to keep to my regular writing Twitch stream schedule, which will help me keep up and reach that 50k mark by the end of the month. If you haven’t followed me over there, CLICK HERE to do so. I would love to hang out and chat with all of you.  I stream Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8 PM EST.

 

 

Tonight’s stream was a bit quicker than I thought it would be. By the time I was ready to stream, I only needed about 4k words to reach my goal of 10k. So it only lasted a few hours. Though it was a great stream and I got a lot done. It’s not always this short.

 

Overall it was a great day of writing, and I can’t wait to share more of the process with all of you here through my blog/website. If you’re participating in the Rough Draft Challenge and would like to cheer each other on, let me know in the comments!