I Want to be a Magician When I Grow Up!

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MONTHLY RECAP
In the last two weeks I have been practicing the overhand shuffle. Every single day, about 8 times a day, I shuffle and reshuffle a freshly opened deck of cards. Erica, (you might be asking) why on EARTH are you doing that? Well, it's simple. My wife bought me The Royal Road to Card Magic by Jean Hugard (famed card magician) & Frederick Braue and I am using it to teach myself how to perform the art of magic.

In these crazy times which seem to be "the new norm" there is only so many puzzles you can put together before you find you need a bit more stimulating activity. And it's during my daily learning that the idea struck me: A story about a girl magician. Simple sentence but it led me down a rabbit hole of characters and stories and possibilities! I haven't been this inspired to write in a long time and I'm loving every second of it.

I've redesigned my website. I've always felt it was a bit heavy with all its pages and things. It is now much simpler, with no menu, just one page to take you to all the things I'm working on: past, present, and future. And while I've been busy outlining and learning magic I have not let my Friday Fiction obligations slip. Keeping up with these short stories is honestly what keeps me focused and is getting me prepared to return down the road of novel writing.

WORD COUNT TRACKER

Q1 + Q2 TOTAL: 41,096 words

JULY - TBD words

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TOTAL: 41,096 words