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Happy Independence Day! (Feel more like Independence Week around here. There hasn't been a night since Friday that someone hasn't set off fireworks.) Hope everyone has a great day and stays cool!
What's Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop created by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk to help writers stay in touch. I let it slip away for a while because first I was too busy with classes and then I was on break and not doing anything interesting. But now I'm back! What I'm Reading: I just finished House of Hades by Rick Riordan and loved it. Fantastic fourth installment to the Heroes of Olympus series. I'm definitely ready for October to arrive with the last book, Blood of Olympus. Last night I started Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein and I'm really excited for it. Code Name Verity is one of my favorite books of all-time so I'm all over a companion novel. What I'm Writing: Nothing yet. I'm neck-deep in partially rewriting my WIP that I refer to as Weredragon. I'm making some minor changes to the first half and some pretty major ones to the second half, but I'm excited about the new direction. I'm also playing with some new idea
Between classes, homework, friends, clubs, and everything else, college doesn't leave a lot of free time. And when it does, it's usually taken up by catching up on sleep. For a lot of people, college means pleasure reading is now a thing of the past. It doesn't have to be. Here are five tips on finding time to read for fun during college. 1. Find time. This is the biggest thing. Chances are if you say "I don't have time to read" it's not true. Take fifteen or twenty minutes to read before bed. If you have an hour between classes that you don't need to use for last-minute studying, find a quiet corner somewhere and read. If there's a meal that you have to eat alone, bring a book and read while you eat. 2. Prioritize free time A couple weeks ago my roommate said she wanted to read a favorite series of mine, but she didn't have time. This is the same roommate that spend four hours yesterday playing Sims 3. If you want to make time to read,
Word Count Total: 7,492 words Day 1: 4,180 words Day 2: 1,304 words Day 3: 2,008 words Day 4: 0 words Tweets from This Week: Wrote almost 500 words at breakfast! I was planning to write at lunch but then I remembered I have a lab report due tomorrow... I need to get one of those screensavers like #Castle has that says "You should be writing" scrolling across the screen… It's really frustrating when my killer can't decide who to target next. #NaNo #murdermystery Time to watch the end of Avengers and write. Word count today is 0 and that needs to change. I'm to the point in my #NaNo where I'm staring at the screen asking "What happens next?" Tips: 1. Write whenever you can, wherever you can. Even if it's just for a few minutes, just get the words down. 2. If your target word count for the day is too daunting, write in short sprints. My target for each day is 2,000 words so when I'm struggling I do sprints of 250 words
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