Update Thursday #72

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 Pricing, Sales, & Giveaways in the eleventh installment of my blog post series, The Journey of Self Publishing.
• I review Safe Landing by Tess Oliver.
• Becca Puglisi stops by with the guest post Top 5 Distractions that Keep Writers from Finishing... plus...
• You can enter a giveaway to win a PDF copy of The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.
• I talk about some of my recent thoughts about my blog and life in the post Sorting It Out.

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Reading...

Books I finished this week:

~Brightest Kind Of Darkness by P.T. Michelle~

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

~Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty~
~Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers~
~The Forever Contract by Avery Sawyer~


644 of 1026 E.E. Cummings poems finished (18 this week)

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Writing...

~ If Only We ~ 30,010 ~

~ Before We Knew ~ 11, 449 ~

~ Whatever This Is ~ outlining ~
~ Under Enchanted Skies ~ 1,550/plotting ~
~ Beyond The Horizon ~ plotting ~
~ So I Thought ~ plotting ~
~ Hold Your Breath ~ plotting ~

I was able to get through a couple scenes I had trouble with. It helps that it is on my mind all the time; I am constantly working out the plot and nuances of character decisions. It makes me more confident in my writing. ^_^

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Otherwise...

Although it's been nice to work more these last few weeks (extra money = woot!), I am SOOO thankful I only worked Monday and Tuesday this week. It left me Wednesday to Friday to get caught up. I have a whole bunch of posts scheduled and ready to go.

Remember my post from yesterday? Take a look at this and have a giggle with me. I think she can read my mind.

Until next time!

~Jessica

PS: Considering yesterdays post, I will be doing a Sunday recap starting next week. So, Update Thursday will be shorter beginning with the 73rd edition.