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I completely forgot to post this yesterday. What a wonderful start to my new updating schedule. No pretty picture to make this post look nicer because I’m at work.

I can’t remember my final word count for last week, but I know it’s low. Much lower than where I ‘should’ be according to my word count goal. However, I’m still in the Couch to 80k Writing Boot Camp, so I’m okay with that. 

Week 8 has been going…mixed, really. It’s focusing completely on our current novel – the novel that I have fallen out of love with. All I can see are problems and issues and I’m very tempted to scrap the whole things. Thankfully, the combination of having good friends and being extremely stubborn is working for me and I’m going to push through it. Even if it ends up crap, it’s my crap.

I definitely haven’t been focusing time to writing, so that’s a problem too. I have to figure out where best to build it into my routine and go from there.

Reading

Promises Linger was exactly what I expected it to be and I absolutely loved it. Something about McCarty’s way of writing as spoken to me since I first read her eleven years ago. Absolutely loved it, but take my view with a grain of salt because I am definitely biased. 

Also (re)read Dark Prince by Christine Feehan. I read this book in high school and remembered thinking it was a good story, but the style of writing was far too flowery for my taste. Put it back on my to-read list because I wanted to take a second look at it, seeing as it is the first book of a largely successful paranormal romance series. I still stand by what I thought in high school: flowery. Way too flowery. Far too mushy for me to be able to deal with and while it was very frustrating, I’m glad I looked at it again.

Third book I read was an anthology, Legally Hot. You can read my review of it here, but TL;DR – On the scale of ‘kill it in a fire’ to ‘LOVE’, it was a solid ‘meh’. 

Not really sure what I’m going to read next. I want to binge on a few things, but I need to break up books that are by the same author, else I overindulge and then get sick of them. Thinking about hopping genres and reading Storm Front, as it’s been sitting on my sofa table for two months now. However, the person who said I need to read the series has also said that it starts slow, so I don’t know about that. 

Other options are The Name of the Wind, Cover Me, or The Chronicles of Chrestomanci. Watch me not read any of them.