NaNoWriMo Week 2 Statistics: Words Written This Week: 11,817 Total Word Count: 25,651 Percentage Complete (assuming 50K words): Just over 50%! Chapters Written: 12 How it’s going so far: I hit a couple of blocks this week. The first was on Wednesday, the day after the election. I woke up exhausted, in shock, and grieving. (I’m still experiencing […]
plot
Summer Writing Plans
Yesterday I went to the library for a glorious two hours and worked on my writing plans for summer. I love the feeling of the whole summer spreading out before me, ready to be filled with words to write and even more words to read! It’s the most wonderful time of the year. For those […]
Habits To Make, Habits To Break
My recent reading has been putting my recent writing to shame. This is completely understandable: I’m writing a first draft, and it’s a normal part of the process to “hate your work but power through” on a first draft. I’m not supposed to be crafting beautiful phrases or pulling creative descriptions out of thin air; I’m […]
Friday Book Review: How to Read Literature Like a Professor
I’ve had How To Read Literature Like A Professor on my Kindle wish list for a long time: So it was a nice surprise to find I could borrow it for free from my library’s e-book system. (Does your library have one? Check it out!) I have to confess that I have not finished this book […]
Catching Mistakes
I’m pretty sure it’s the “English teacher’s daughter” in me, but I love catching errors in books. Not grammatical errors, but plot errors- little things like a mistaken order of events, recounted; the wrong character labeled with the wrong action or characteristic; or the re-description of a room with something in the wrong place. It’s […]
The Hunger Games
Since this weekend has been all about the hype surrounding The Hunger Games premiere, I thought I’d re-post my original assessment of the series, posted back in September. I still stand by my opinion that while the first two books were works of creative genius, Suzanne Collins seriously phoned it in on the third. It […]