Hey guys!
November is done and so is NaNoWriMo. Let's start with that, shall we? I, just as last year, participated in NaNoWriMo which is also why I haven't been too active on here and on my YouTube during November. I dedicated most of my time to writing and winning, which I ended up doing a week or so early. My finishing word count was 65k words but since then I added a few more so I ended up with a first draft with a length of 67k words. Now I have to go into revision and sometime in the near future it'll again be quary time.
When it comes to reading I didn't get too much of that done, only two books and two mangas. Not my best result but I guess it's still better than nothing, right?
This month the Book of the Month and Most Anticipated are one and the same as it is The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin. As you guys know I love that trilogy and I've been dying to read it. And I did. And I loved it. I also wrote a review for it, which you can find by clicking on the title in the list below.
Books read:
Books acquired:
- The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
- A Thousnand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
- God's Buried Children by Daniel Farcas
- Partials by Dan Wells
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: 1 by Naoko Takeuchi
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: 2 by Naoko Takeuchi
- The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
- Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson
- Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
- The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson
- Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
- Angelfall by Susan Ee
- Balzhar by M Wolitzer
~ In Process ~
- Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi (24%)
- God's Buried Children by Daniel Farcas (80%)
- A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray (9%)
- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (61%)
- and way too many more...
For the Month of December I am hoping to read a few more books, though I have quite a few things planned and there also is the fact that I need to revise my NaNoWriMo novel, but I will still try my best to get some reading done.
And that's it for this little post and update.
Cheerio!
Hey guys!
It's almost November and you, may or may not, know what that means.... IT'S NANOWRIMO TIME! I'm sure many of you are asking yourselves now "What the hell is she talking about?", so let me explain.
NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month where you get 30 days to write a (at least) 50.000 word novel. You have time from November 1st till 30th, where between the 25th and 30th you can upload what you wrote onto their page so they can check if you really wrote 50.000 or more words, and if you did you are a winner. As NaNoWriMo winner you get a lot of different possibilities of what you can do: many pages like lulu.com or createspace.com, which are pages that make becoming a self-published author happen, offer discounts on their services and many more.
But, if you don't succeed or you are not happy with what you wrote, it's okay. Don't delete it or be sad, you tried which is already a huge step into the right direction, besides maybe in a month or two you'll read over your work again and come to the conclusion that it is not as bad as you thought.
This year I'm going to participate for the first time (SO excited). I'm basically going to try and write my second novel for my "Hunting Freedom"-Trilogy, which is going to be a huge challenge as I have to manage not only writing at least 50.000 words but also school and all. But, I will still try and I encourage all of you, who like writing or have thought about writing a book, to also participate and who knows maybe in November you will write your first best-seller.
If you decide to participate, you can add me as "writing buddy", which doesn't really give me anything besides having you as "writing buddy".
Besides that, I also wanted to thank everybody who showed interest in my novel, Into the Unknown, till now and I want to encourage you to go and check it out if you didn't do it yet, especially if you are a fan of dystopian societies and such.
Cheerio!
