Anna Aden Writes

This may be repetitive of my quarterly review.  Project Status Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series On track/in progress Project #2: Publish my novella Completed Project #3: Review romance conference material On Hold Project #4: Review Jericho conference material On Hold Project #5: Google Drive Review & consolidate tentatively completed for now. Project #6: Genre exploration On Hold Project #7 Watching Instructional videos: On Hold Project #8 Complete LinkedIn Learning course On Track/In progress Project #9 The cover design course On Hold Breakdown Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series I've completed this round of edits, and it's looking good. I just need some tightening here and there. At the moment, I'm on a break but I hope to resume it soon. I have also outlined a plan of what I need to focus on. New issues, risks, blockers: None at the moment though I'm taking a short break.  Project #5: Google Drive Review & consolidate After a few false sta...

February 2026 Goals Monthly Update cute kittens My Master Goal Lists:  https://dabwrites.blogspot.com/p/2026-goals-projects.html I'm trying out different formats but this is what I have now. Project Status Project Status Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series-in-progress On track/in progress Project #2: Publish my novella experiment-write-to-market series Completed Project #3: Review romance conference material On Hold Project #4: Review Jericho conference material On Hold Project #5: Review & consolidate other writing information on Google drive target: 30 docs in progress/ behind Schedule Project #6: Genre exploration On Hold Project #7 Watching Instructional videos: On Hold Project #8 Complete LinkedIn Learning course On Track/In progress Project #9 The cover design course On Hold Details of those on track Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series-in-progress Progress this month  I have decided to make this my main focus for now rather than spread myself t...

5 Lesson TRANSFORMING ARTWORK This is my result image and of course I changed some stuff to make it less boring. I do feel some options have changed even since the book is for Abode illustrator 2023 and I'm using version 2024. However I'm using the essential classic workspace  which means tools don't change.  This was the lesson menu and I have no idea why its blurred but this lesson was mostly about learning skills. Add, edit, rename, and reorder artboards in an existing document.  Navigate artboards.  Work with rulers and guides.  Position objects with precision.  Move, scale, rotate, and shear objects using a variety of methods.  Explore the mirror repeat.  Work with the Puppet Warp tool. Most of it was boring because I was working with demo files and just learning where things where and now they worked rather than doing much. I think it's a good reference chapter incase I wanted to do anything complicated.  At this point, I feel the...