2013 Reading Challenges Sign-Up

Reading Challenges: I spent four complete days changing Bookish Ardour around so I could open up 2013 challenges and have 2012 challenges remain accessible. That’s what I’m celebrating; being finished! I’ve cleaned up the pages and I have pretty new badges. What’s not to be happy about?

I’m not completely set on what I’m going to be aiming for. It won’t be a lot again as I want to focus on writing again, but I’m still aiming for something. Here’s a list (I’ll add this to my reading journal in the new year), some of the list will be blank, and some will be filled in. I like the element of suspense not knowing exactly what I’m reading will entail so I’ll fill in the rest as I read.

2012 Reading Challenges Wrap-Up

I know it’s been awhile and boy do I have some news to share, but I want to get my reading challenge wrap-ups and sign-ups out of the way first so I can start clean with my reading challenges for next year.

I read that back to myself… Sounded a little pedantic didn’t it? Anyway, I do have an update coming in regards to NaNo, NaNo Sponsorship, and health, but it’s quite long and has been exhausting to write up. Come to think of it, most of everything at the moment is exhausting, but for those who know I had a hospital stay, I’m much better than I was.

So, reading challenges. This is this year’s sign-up with my goals for the year. I’ve come to accept I don’t meet my reading goals when I set them, but I think I got closer this year than I have in a long time. I was aiming to read only 25 books and to focus on writing. I made it over 40… the good news is I did write a novel this year. Granted it was in the one month, but maybe one novel in one month without much of anything else is better than nothing, right? Right?

Nano Novel 2012 Quotes: Day Seventeen and Eighteen

Each day I will be posting my total daily summary of my NaNo writing over on Twitter and posting a quote, from what I’ve written, here.

I will not be editing my quotes overly much before I post them. I want to leave the material as raw as possible in order to avoid the edit-as-you-go problem. I may or may not include a summary of how my writing day went. Depends on how my hands and brain are feeling.

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Day Fifteen’s Quote (from Bunker)

Liam pressed the up button in a rapid motion, like a bird pecking at a worm, but with fear lacing the movement.

Today’s Quote (from Bunker)

I did as told, awkwardly manoeuvring myself around so I could lower my body down until my hands were grasping the edge and I was pressed up against the wall.

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I’m so close to only having 10,000 words to go it’s driving me crazy. Hurry up and write Bonnie! I did over 3,000 today though so I’ll leave it at that. I don’t think I really have much else to say today either. I’m too sleepy…

Nano Novel 2012 Quotes: Day Fifteen and Sixteen

Each day I will be posting my total daily summary of my NaNo writing over on Twitter and posting a quote, from what I’ve written, here.

I will not be editing my quotes overly much before I post them. I want to leave the material as raw as possible in order to avoid the edit-as-you-go problem. I may or may not include a summary of how my writing day went. Depends on how my hands and brain are feeling.

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Day Fifteen’s Quote (from Bully Me)

The last thing she saw before her eyelids met was the horror creeping into Megan’s eyes.

Today’s Quote (from Bunker)

I continued on walking close to Liam, and we stayed quiet again for another few minutes, eyeing the dark ahead of us and trying not to think of what was going on in that room.

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