Tag: writing
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2018-2019 Compilation Post
The end of summer is coming… Fall always feels like a time of reckoning. Harvest. Counting up what happened in the year, good and bad, and getting the books in order for winter. Last year I wrote 19 book reviews on this site and started the Diverse Reading Challenge with The Tale of Genji. It’s about 1000 pages,…
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The Cast by Danielle Steel
Rating: 3/5, average This is the first Danielle Steel book I have read. I can count the romance books I’ve read on one hand, so this is not my usual genre, however, I got curious about Danielle Steel after reading an interview with her in Glamour in which she talks about her harsh schedule. Steel…
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The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Rating: 5/5, excellent WARNING: This review contains spoilers! This book is a touchstone for me. I read it the first time in middle school, and it really resonated with me. The Invisible Man is a very irritable, impatient, smart person. He reminds me a lot of myself and my…
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My Current Writing Process (December 2018)
I would like to just quickly share with you the way I’ve been writing for the past three months or so… In 2016, I started doing a method where I would just make myself write something for 30 minutes a day. It was really helpful for training myself to be less self-critical and just spit…
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My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
Rating: 4/5 Warning: This review contains spoilers. Warning: This book may trigger those with depression and other mental illnesses. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is a graphic novel memoir about a woman in her late 20s whose life is stymied by clinical depression, sexual repression, and her parents’ and society’s expectations. Driven to the end…
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March Writing Fail
So… writing in March didn’t exactly go as planned. I kinda got busy and completely forgot about it. I did do some other writing for ExploreLivermore and I managed to finish my So Rich, So Poor review, but fiction writing kinda didn’t happen. Happy distractions abounded, from Daniel’s birthday, my mom coming to visit, and…
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January Writing Progress
So here’s my daily wordcounts for January using the method I talked about here! I missed a couple days when I went to a convention, the Women’s March, didn’t feel like writing on the weekend, or was working on a blog post, but I did hit 10k by the end of the month, so I’m…
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Productivity Updates – How I’m Writing Every Day
I’ve been working on building the habits I started during NaNoWriMo into a daily writing practice and I’d like to show you how I’ve been keeping track of my writing goals for the month of January:
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Ars longa, Vita Brevis: NaNoWriMo 2016
I did NaNoWriMo this year! Well, I participated, at least… I didn’t get to the 50,000 word mark but I did get 10,000 words down. I started off really strong the first day, slowed down on day 2, and then got bogged down for two weeks with Comp Sci homework (and then dropped that class)…
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Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer isn’t really about close reading, and it’s not really about learning to write better. It’s mostly about giving budding writers recommendations for books to read that exemplify good writing skills, and bringing some forgotten works back to the attention of general readers of literature.