Blake R. Wolfe

 Omg you guys, I am grinding so hard to get this fricken Cowmelot book done. My god. I'm so close to the end of the book that it's killing me to not have it done yet, but at the same time, I just can't write for hours on end right now. I've been burning the candle at both ends a lot lately, to the tune of being up at 7am and going to bed past 1am. I know if I push it much further than that, I'm gonna hit burnout so hard that I'll be down for a month and that's not an option. I'm doing my best to find a little bit of balance and reign myself in. The good news is that burnout usually doesn't hit me when I'm feeling super motivated, and I'm definitely motivated right now. Thanks to the success of Alpha's Rejection and my impending vacation (only two days of work left) I feel like I could take on the world right now. And I fully intend to if I'm being honest. Today I took pictures of all my notes on my 4ftx8ft whiteboard and erased it all...

 Happy V-day to all of you that celebrate it! I feel like I spent most of the day at work, but thankfully it wasn't too crazy. Once I was out though, I got to spend some good quality time with the boys. We ordered out and had a nice meal, which was great. I'm the cook of the house, but I never turn down an opportunity to have a night off, especially after the recent work days I've been having. Either way, it was great to get to spend the evening with them :) I lost a little bit of writing time due to the holiday, but I don't mind. I still managed to hit my 1500 word count plus some before midnight. I put all of it into Cowmelot today just because that project needs to get finished. I'm definitely getting really close now. Right now I'm doing a big reveal for the main character, telling him the truth about cows and beef. Spoilers: he's not a fan of that. However, it will give him the motivation he needs to take on the villain, so that's important. Hopeful...

 Man, I don't know what's up with work lately, but it's just been running me into the ground day after day. Again today was especially hard and I had to defend myself more than once because people were trying to play off my job as "easy". This coming from people who haven't been doing anything near my job for months at this point. Ugh. Oh well. The day is over, I don't want to stew over it. Got a huge amount of writing done yesterday, 4700 words before midnight! Today I'm almost 2k into Cowmelot with a couple hours left to write. I think I'm gonna switch over to Beta's Bliss for the rest of the night because I need a bit of a palate cleanser. Doing almost 10k in the past few days for Cowmelot alone has been a lot. Fantasy is a ton of fun to write, but it definitely requires a lot more in-depth thought and world-building than contemporary romance. Romance is more about the characters and their thoughts, which come SUPER easy to me, so it doesn...

 Yesterday was a bit hectic to say the least. I didn't get a ton of sleep before I had to be up in the morning for our D&D game that my friends and I stream on Twitch. It was a great game and we left at the craziest cliffhanger, so I had a lot of fun. There were a few interactions with other characters I had that I REALLY got into. It's not often I actually lose myself in the role-playing aspect of things and to be honest, it's a little scary. Even now, a day after the game, I'm still pissed at this completely made-up person for what he did to my character. It's kinda cool that you can get so involved with something like that and feel like you really and truly experienced it.  The power of role-playing games, right? After all that, I had to pick up groceries, kinda rush to make dinner, snag the tiniest of cat naps, then me and one of the boys went out to a play called Miss Holmes. It was basically Sherlock Holmes but gender-bent, so Watson and Holmes were both w...

 These past couple of days at work have been absolute murder. I've NEVER been so unbelievably busy. Like to the point where even a bathroom break is not an option and that's insane. I spent 3 full hours in meetings this morning, back to back, then spent the rest of the day working my ass off so we could just barely end the day with only one thing left to do. Literally, 8 straight hours of craziness and I am NOT a fan. Days like today are the reason I keep driving at being a full-time author. Working a day job like this one and then working for 4-5 hours a day on my author stuff on top of all that really doesn't leave me a lot of time to spend with my boys or doing much else with my life. I'd like to get outside or have a moment to run errands if I need them. I can't even schedule appointments to get my car fixed or get new glasses at this point. And the worst part is, I'm the ONLY person on my team at work, so taking time off isn't really an option. Of cours...

 Today's update is much like yesterday's, just putting in as many words as I can muster. I've got about 2100 in as of writing this, but plan to keep going until at least 11pm to see how many I can get in. All of them so far are in Cowmelot, but I'm hoping to get the first official sex scene written in Beta's Bliss as well. I'm sure I'll be able to get through most of it tonight. Sex scenes are difficult for me to write, so I usually take them in pieces. Also, on the Facebook ad front, I've continued to research and brainstorm new audiences to market my werewolf romances too (thank you D&D friends :) ) and it's already showing a bit of success in less than 24 hours! My friends helped to point out to me that there are several groups of people that would like my work, especially groups that are geared more towards women (the biggest readers of shifter romance) and helped me to narrow down how to target them. The results thus far have been great and ...

 Today was my second day in a row putting in 4000 words total (across two books), which is fantastic! I love when I get into a groove like this because books just seem to fly out of me! In the past four days I've put in nearly 12,000 words, which is a TON of progress. My goal for the year is 1500 words per day, so this puts me well above goal. Cowmelot is now moving into the final battle stages of the book. Total word count right now is 109,500, making it the longest book I've ever written. It'll probably be at least 120k, if not 125k by the time I'm finished. My sincerest wish is to have it nearly completed by the end of this upcoming weekend. I'm placing it as priority #1, so I don't work on anything else until the words are done for this book first. Beta's Bliss is coming along as well. I just passed 23,000 total words, putting me nearly at the halfway point. I'm breaking into the first true sex scene of the book, which is about perfect for the pacing...