Last week, I shared two different story ideas I was considering writing for this year's NaNoWriMo. I'm happy to say that I've decided which one I'm going to write this November! NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it challenges writers to write 50,000 words of a novel by the end of November. It's a tall order and can be incredibly stressful,...
There are officially only ten days until November, which means there's only a little over a week until NaNoWriMo starts! Today, I started to plan out what I'll be writing for NaNoWriMo and feel in no way prepared. For those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month in which writers are challenged to write 50,000 words of a first...
Mostly Thorns With a Few Roses: The Bookie Monsters September Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Summary When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin...
Summary of The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad...
Wake me up when September ends. I couldn't resist quoting Green Day lyrics. With September being the beginning of the school year, I have been one busy little bee at work, which means I haven't had as much time to devote to reading and writing as I'd like. On the whole though, it was still a relatively good month. With the end of...
I thought I'd share a little more about my novel with you by doing a recap of all my #WIPjoy tweets during September from Twitter. #WIPjoy is a series of month long daily prompts provided by Bethany A. Jennings (@simmeringmind) in which she encourages writers to share bits and pieces of their current WIP (work in progress). Full disclosure: There were some days...
