Rainy Day Reads

Nano: When even your coffee is telling you to wake up {Somehow this didn't post properly a week ago when it was supposed to. So here it is, a bit late} Well, I seem unable to do better than staying less than several thousand words behind. In fact, I think that I'm doing worse in keep up since last week (looks up Nano chart. Yup. 11,00 words behind, now*cries*). I kind of wasted a perfect weekend to catch up by burning myself out by being too ambitious on my first day off and giving myself MAJOR burnout for the rest of the weekend, so that was smart. And I was doing so well! And also this was supposed to be a week 2 update and now it's a week 2 AND 3 update. So not only am I failing at nano, but also everything else. {UPDATE: I also failed to post this properly in November, so there's that, too.} Okay, despair over. Let's do a little review of my last two weeks and what happened. Nano week 2 I continued to keep up with my daily wordcounts, and e...

(Picture taken at a local coffee shop. Because one does not simply write at a coffee shop without instagraming it) I'm attempting to do Nanowrimo this year. Here's my first weeks' wrap up, and oh boy, let me tell you, this week has been an adventure to say the least. I'm behind by several thousand words, and I was doing so well at the start of the week :( Ah well, I suppose that getting your wisdom teeth out will do that to ya. Yep.  I signed up for Nano knowing full well that I was getting surgery 3 days in. But I figured that I couldn't let a silly little thing like getting four teeth yanked out of my mouth stop my creative process, so here we are. Day 1:  It was Wednesday, which is good news for my writerly prospects; because that is the morning that I drop my brother off at school, and then have 2 hours to bum around the city while I wait for him to get out of class so that I can pick him up. I usually go to a nearby coffee shop and read, but t...