Countdown to NaNoWriMo

So now is the time for the writers who want to write novels but never have the time to finally get that story down on paper. I have done NaNoWriMo before. The first two times I did it I didn't officially register I did it on my own time, and I didn't even finish it. When I wrote in 2011, I got over50k and the story still didn't feel complete. Last year I wrote the first book in a new series of mine plus half of book two. I am debating onto whether or not I should finish writing book two and move onto book three to make sure the plot flows, or to write this other super secret project I've been anticipating on writing. I will keep blogging this week with tips on how to prepare, and to keep your little fingers hitting the keys as fast as you can.

Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer

What happens when happily ever after... isn’t?
Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah. And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom. Delilah and Oliver work together to attempt to get Oliver out of his book, a challenging task that forces them to examine their perceptions of fate, the world, and their places in it. And as their attraction to each other grows along the way, a romance blossoms that is anything but a fairy tale.





I have been anxious to get my hands on this book. I have been a big fan of Jodi for years, and now she co-wrote a book with her daughter. Basically, Delilah falls in love with the character of a book. Being an outsider in school, she's only found comfort in books.She finds herself attracted to a guy in fairytale Prince Oliver. When a person reads the book, the prince speaks out to them. 

I liked how the main character Delilah was able to escape to books, much like myself, I never felt like I fit in with other kids at school, I only hung out with a few groups, but I always had my nose buried in a book in order to escape the world, so that was my personal connection to the book. The book like all of Jodi's other books is told in multiple point of views, this one is written in three point of views. Some parts of the book tended to be a tad bit dull, but other parts were starting to get into the real fantasy aspect of it. I like Jodi's other books, but I thought the book was alright.

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.








Claire is an artist, and as a child she stumbles upon a man in the forest near her home. While she's there she seems to finds a man who can time travel. Throughout her life Claire finds herself running into Henry at different times and in the strangest palces. Claire doesn't exactly get to have a traditional normal relationalship with the person she loves.

I had seen the movie previously, and I normally don't do that, but I had wanted to read the book for a long time, and I finally found the time. I don't want to sound too biased, but I like the movie better. When I was reading the book, I found myself getting confused. I normally don't mind books written in multiple point of views, but Claire's personality was really irritating. I also kept getting confused when it would come time to read Henry's point of view because it would flop around between different time frames. The story is good, but it needed more editing.

Back Again

*Dusts off blog*

I've been a bad blogger. I know, I know I haven't blogged in a really long time and for good reason. 

You know the whole saying about kids fresh out of high school, and wasting a lot of money and time because they can't figure out what they want to major in, that pretty much happened to me. 

My first four semesters at the university, I was bouncing around still finishing the core because I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I mostly just wanted to major in English and be a full time writer. Realistically, it's hard to break out as a first time writer, and even P.C. Cast has said so when I went to her book signing, she was a high school English teacher for forty years before her work was published. Forty years?! But that was back when the only way to publish was through the Big Six publishers, and publishing has changed.

Anyhow, so I finally decided on two careers/majors, nursing and music education. I know it's a weird combination, but the way I see it, if I can't find work in one field I have something else I can live off of, until I get my foot in the door of the industry. Since I'm doing nursing I have to do A LOT of science courses, two anatomy classes, one microbiology course, two psychology courses, one nutrition course, pathophysiology, chemistry, so yeah it's a lot of work.  

Then one of the new school advisers told me the wrong science class so I had to retake a biology course. Not to mention I have to take statistics, and whoever came up with the crap of statistics better be dead. Statistics is a freaking pain in the a**, it literally takes you about half an hour just to figure out the answer to one stupid math problem. I have never liked math and for that reason, too much work just to get the answer to one problem. My hatred for math will never die. 


So since I've been taking so many science classes this year I haven't been able to read as much as I normally do, as to book blogging that may die down as well, but I will still participate in blog tours and cover reveals. Now I will mostly blog about my writing and hopes that I get something published, and probably an occasional book I read. One series I completed, it just needs to be polished but because of the elements I have not been able to sell it to anyone, but I have another idea itching in my head and I hope to finish my idea for it.