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I followed up The Graveyard Book with another creepy children’s book–Holly Black’s Doll Bones. I finished that yesterday and it’s very well-written and very creepy. A great October read. Today I’m going to start Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor. I am so excited to read it!

WHAT I’M WRITING

Still working through my revisions on the first act of TCE. I realized I have a lot of scenes of people just standing/sitting around and talking. So I need to remedy that, which is rather hard for a quieter story with no explosions. I’ve got some ideas though. And I’m getting through all of this much slower than I thought (isn’t that always the case?) so it looks like I’m going to be NaNoing it this year, basically. Hopefully all I’ll have left is 50k, if I’m a good girl the rest of the month.

WHAT WORKS FOR ME

Having a variety of readers for your work. I have a writing group who gets bits as I write the story, alpha readers who read my crappy first drafts, and beta readers who read the later drafts. All of the feedback I have found to be so crucial to my process and helping me see my mistakes at every stage. So, if you’re lacking one of those types of readers, I highly recommend finding some of your own!

WHAT ELSE I’M UP TO

Turbo turned 2 on Sunday. I’m kinda in disbelief it’s been two years–it feels like we just celebrated his first birthday. And on Saturday I did my second cyclocross race. It was really, really hard but I had an absolute blast. I can’t wait for my next race this coming Saturday!

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