Update Thursday #64

Welcome to Update Thursday, my own personal meme of sorts where I post an update of the goings on at my blog, with reading, with writing, and beyond. Feel free to borrow the idea from me for your own bookish musings.

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On the Blog this week:

• The indie author panel tackles Professional Editors in the third installment of my blog post series, The Journey of Self Publishing
• See my review of Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess)
• All my followers will want to enter the Midsummer's Eve Giveaway for a chance to win one of 0 awesome books

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Reading...

Books I finished this week:

~Heat Wave (Nikki Heat #1) by Richard Castle~

Books I'm reading now (and some still):

 

~Don't Breathe A Word by Holly Cupala~

~Under The Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (Classics Challenge)~

~The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee~

~For Darkness Shows The Stars by Diana Peterfreund~

487 of 1026 E.E. Cummings poems finished (30 this week)

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Writing...

~ If Only We ~ 26,912 ~

~ Before We Knew ~ 11, 449 ~

~ Whatever This Is ~ outlining ~

WOOT! Almost 3,000 words. Getting there. I set a higher goal for myself this week, but got preoccupied reading. I actually finished two books, but one of them isn't listed on Goodreads yet. It should be listed soon though.

Anyhow. I had some interesting thoughts while writing over the last week and decided to type up a post about writing. It will come up tomorrow (er, at 1:00 am, which is technically tomorrow, but will be here in a little over 12 hours).

There's one of my book ideas that I am constantly getting good ideas for. The only thing I haven't gotten an idea on is the TITLE. Once I brainstorm a good one, I'm gonna add it to the list above. I actually have a nice little beginning to the word count on it because I've written out a couple of the scenes. And now that I'm talking about it, I'm THINKING about and want to keep WRITING IT. Not good. FOCUS on ONE book, Jessica.

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Otherwise...

Um, same as usual. Working, looking for work, selling online. I have several packages to put together and ship out. My mom just pointed out there are some new flowers on a bush in our yard, so I'm gonna head out there and take some pictures.

I am kind of wanting to do something more on my blog. I haven't had many guest posts, on my blog or me visiting other blogs. So, note to followers: You want to guest post on this blog or have me guest post on yours? CONTACT ME. Here's my email: impulsivities[at]gmail[dot]com.

I'm actually thinking about putting together a little survey for my followers to see what kind of things they like and don't like and would like to see on my blog. That way I can have a better idea of how to continue on with my blog. I would like to have more consistent posting. There are some weeks I'm missing three days in a row until the next new post comes. Also, I've got plenty of ideas, but I want to execute them well. What do you think? You wanna do a survey? If you do, I'll get it typed up and posted this weekend.


Until next time!

~Jessica