Thoughts on the New Year (Or Why I Don’t Make Resolutions)

Thoughts on the New Year (Or Why I Don’t Make Resolutions)
How I finally got on the audiobook bandwagon.
Where I enter a flash fiction writing challenge.
With the completion of Born In Ice by Nora Roberts tonight, I have officially achieved my 2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge goal. At the beginning of the year, I set my goal to read 78 books this year. That breaks down to ~1.5 books per week. This is week 36, so that means I've read ~2.1 …
On Monday, I started the Backpack Across Europe Summer 2018 Reading Challenge. This reading challenge, hosted by the awesome folks over at The Reader's Room, is all about exploring Europe via literature. The challenge has rules, special events, and travel obstacles making it like a virtual board game with reading. As you know, I opted …
The Mystery Blogger Award
If you follow me on Litsy, then you've probably seen my #QuotsyApril18 posts. I've had a blast finding quotes and designing images to meet each day's prompt. So much so, I decided to do a recap. For those of you not on Litsy, each month various Littens host photo and quote challenges. The hosts assign …
As most of you on the east coast know, spring is fashionably late this year and winter lingers on with another late season snow storm last Wednesday. Spring is so late in arriving that the National Park Service has pushed the Cherry Blossom peak bloom prediction back not once, but twice. For those of us …
Tomorrow starts NaNoWriMo 2017. (That's National Novel Writing Month which starts November 1.) And after my weekend in Ellicott City, Maryland attending Hallowread and talking to many of the authors, I am rather stoked and motivated to write my 2017 NaNoWriMo novel. Now if you're familiar with NaNoWriMo, you know that traditionally NaNoWriMo divided writers into …
Continue reading Gearing Up for NaNoWriMo: Planners versus Pansters
This has been a rather crazy week. It was Monday, then I turned around and it's Friday already. Happy Friday! As a result, I have slacked on posting this week. I could blame part of that on work. But while I may have been a bit busier than normal, that doesn't excuse evenings and early …