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Posted on January 21, 2019

My Top Ten Favorite Book Titles (Spoiler Alert: They’re All Super Long. Like This Title Is. Whoops.)

Hey everybody! I'm officially back from Miami, where I was participating in National YoungArts week. I had the chance to take classes with INCREDIBLE master…

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Posted on April 2, 2018April 2, 2018

The Best Books With Animal Main Characters

Happy slightly late Easter, everyone! Currently, my house is full of bunnies. Plastic Easter bunnies on the mantle, fluffy stuffed animal bunnies, and (best of…

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Posted on March 25, 2018March 25, 2018

5 Movies That Are Actually Better Than The Book

As long as books have been made into movies, readers have been disappointed. Hollywood always manages to cut out your favorite part. What happened to Hermione's…

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Happy almost new year! I’m excited for the 20s to make a comeback (bobs!! dresses with an excessive amount of fringe!! economic prosperity during the years I enter the job market!!) but I’m sad to see 2019 go. In the past twelve months, I started college and met so many incredible people. I’ve taken an astronomy class, worked on my book, read feminist theory, and ran down a hill at full speed with @seb.draws . This was an absolutely wonderful 365 days. Here’s hoping the next decade will be just as spectacular. 💛 I finished my yearly reading goal of 52 books. Some of my favorites were Fun Home by @alisonbechdel and In the Dream House by @carmenmmachado. (I guess this was the year of reading novels with houses in the title? The real estate theme is not intentional.) What was your favorite book that you read this year? 💛 #book #writer #writing #bookstagram #newyear
Happy NanoWrimo!! Who is participating this month? ⠀⠀ A couple of updates: ⠀⠀ 1. I’m attempting to write over 50,000 words. I’m about 5,100 words in and it feels so good to actually be writing again. It’s my favorite time of year. ⠀⠀ 2. I am bribing myself with leftover Halloween candy and hot drinks to write. I’ve been eating a lot of pumpkin-flavored things, and I don’t care if it’s cliche - they’re good. Teenage girls were RIGHT. (As we often are regarding politics/pop culture/everything, really.) ⠀⠀ 3. This is my dog in my glasses. I’m in college and I haven’t seen him in two weeks. No amount of Pumpkin Spice Lattes can make up his absence. 💛 💛 #dog #book #writer #writing #bookstagram #amwriting #writingcommunity #read
This is a photo from the Miami bookstore “Books & Books,” but I think a more accurate name would be “Books & Books & Books & Books & Books & Books etc.” (This is why I have trouble titling things. All my titles are approximately 635 miles long. None of them can fit in a headline. Or on a book cover. But of course, that’s wishful thinking.) 💛 💛 #book #writer #writing #bookstagram #read #shelfie #bookstore #booksandbooks
“Keep your eyes on your own page.” One of the many things that my elementary school teacher told me that’s still relevant to my writing career. (Some other examples include “You can have your snack after you finish reading” and “Stop kicking your seat partner and do your work,” two productivity strategies I still employ today.) 💛 💛 I haven’t written as much this summer as I would have liked to: two chapters. Two short stories. Two poems. I’ve spent more time comparing myself to other writers: am I as good? As literary? As publishable? Time to keep my eyes on my own page again. I only dislike my writing when I’m not writing. 💛 💛 What’s your favorite thing you’ve written this summer? Mine’s a strong tie between a short story about a violent hamster and a rewrite of my first chapter. 💛 💛 # #book #writer #writing #bookstagram #amwriting #read

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