WRITE-A-PALOOZA!!!! Myrtle Beach Spring Edition

It’s that time again for me! I get this itch for the beach every so often, and I’m incredibly lucky and grateful that I only live a short drive away from the beautiful beaches on the Atlantic coast. Myrtle Beach, SC here I come!!!!

Here WE come, actually. I’ll be heading there on Saturday with my little family of three. We have a two bedroom oceanfront condo, and I can’t wait! The weather is supposed to be gorgeous, warm and sunny. Exactly what I need right now, let me tell you.

But this isn’t a vacation in the typical sense. This is a write-a-palooza! I always seem to get inspired at the beach, and when I write there, the words just seem to flow. We haven’t been since last October, so I’m really looking forward to getting some great writing in and being inspired by the sounds of the ocean.

What’s even more fun is that I’ll be starting a new project! I finally finished the current draft of Death’s Awakening. Looking over it, I know it still needs some edits, but I’d like to let it sit for a while before I come back to it with fresh eyes. Instead, I’ll be working on The Trouble With Goodbye! This story is so strong in my mind, and every time I sit down to write the other book, it’s Leigh Anne and Knox there in my head instead. I HAVE to write this book! My plan for this write-a-palooza is to write the first half of my rough draft. 30,000 words. More if I can swing it, but I want to keep my expectations realistic.

My husband will be watching the baby a lot, but we’ll still hopefully have some fun-in-the-sun family time. Mostly, though, this will be a working vacation for me, and I’m so excited! Actually, I’m even MORE excited after the amazing cover reveal earlier this week. Over 300 people added The Trouble With Goodbye to their goodreads shelf and over 60 blogs featured the cover on Tuesday. The response totally blew me away, so thank you to ATOMR Blog Tours for organizing the reveal and to every blog that helped with the reveal. It was so much fun!

As I’ve done in the past, I’ll be putting up a word meter for everyone to be able to follow my progress. It helps to keep me accountable, so I hope you’ll check in with me and see how I’m doing throughout the trip. I put one meter here and one on the homepage too. Hopefully by the time I come home on Wednesday, the word meter will be full and I’ll have 30,000 new words written!

Do you get inspired by the beach? Or are you more of a mountains/woods type of person? OR, do you prefer big cities? My husband would be in Vegas every weekend if he could, haha, but me? I love the beach!