Update Thursday #70

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 Contacting Book Bloggers in the ninth installment of my blog post series, The Journey of Self Publishing.
• My review of Glitch by Heather Anastasiu.
• See my thoughts on Thomas Hardy's Under The Greenwood Tree.
• LAST CHANCE to fill out my blog survey. I want to know what you think of my blog and what kind of things you like and don't like on blogs. I'll be compiling a small post with my thoughts on your thoughts! ^_^

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Reading...

Books I finished this week:

~Safe Landing by Tess Oliver~

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

~Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty~
~Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers~
~The Princess Bride by William Goldman~
~Brightest Kind Of Darkness by P.T. Michelle~

591 of 1026 E.E. Cummings poems finished (14 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 ~

Despite numbers above, I have been a busy bee. How so? I have been fixing my novel. I started a notebook dedicated to If Only We and have written out details for chapters and characters. While I was writing in the notebook, I got so anxious to start writing it all out. New revisions are underway and I am feeling a lot better.

I read an article earlier this week about writing in order versus not writing in order. It was a really useful article for writers. Kind of helped me find the proper balance, since I had been writing out some scenes that happen later in my story.

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Otherwise...

With the whole photos on the blog issue, I decided to make some LOLcats pictures of my own. I've only done 4 so far, but I'll make more soon. I used the Lolcats Generator on the website Big Huge Labs. It works pretty well. And I found it to be lotsa fun, even though some of my humor isn't that laugh out loud funny. Here's one of them:

I read an awesome post on Joyousreads on Tuesday called Author Behaving Graciously. It's about an author who welcomes an unfavorable review. With all the controversies lately, it was so nice to read about an author who can take an honest review and see the bright side.


Until next time!

~Jessica