Progress: Finished Chapter 3

Total Word Count: 15,808

Number of Words Cut: 2,034 (My goal is to cut at least 10,000 words from Part One)

The internet on my laptop stopped working.

I guess it's time to go buy a USB.

 Creepy and SO good:  merry-fates.livejournal.com/109154.html

For the last couple of weeks, I've been writing at a desk in my basement which I have nicknamed "The Lair."

It's been very productive. I've finished six scenes this month.

Now I'm sick of The Lair. There are no windows, it's cold, and I still waste countless hours on the internet.

Maybe tomorrow I will go to Borders and write.

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I have also promised ( Read more... )

"My Rapist Friended Me on Facebook and All I Got Was this Lousy Article: The hour-long phone conversation with the man who raped me that was more helpful than 1,000 hours of therapy"

The thing about rape is that most people see the rapists as terrible, horrible, evil people. In many cases, that is very true, but sometimes they are just people who ( Read more... )

 As much as the second draft edits are going to suck, I'm really, really excited about finishing this book in the next few months. I have a lot of really exciting scenes ahead of me, and I can't wait to write them ( Read more... )

 During the last couple years, I've started keeping track of all the books I've been reading. While I don't feel like discussing all of them in this post, I will highlight a few from the last 2-3 years that I recommend:

(Note: I'm not going to bother describing the plot of each book, since that's something you can easily find on amazon.)

Favorites

The ( Read more... )

 My ARC of Legend by Marie Lu just came in the mail. (Thanks, Rachel!)

It's my first ARC, and suddenly I feel like a real writer.

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Since the purpose of an ARC is for promotion, I will post my review of it once I finish the book.

After a long period of feeling blocked, panicked, and unmotivated, I think things are starting to get better. (Maybe.)

You know your group of friends is awesome when they build a life-size Tardis and then bring it to campus in cosplay!

In other news, I just got my MCAT scores back, and I don't have to re-take them!