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January 2019 God damn! I burst into it this year on the other end. Last year I trounced 15 books my first month for my largest reading total to date. This time I did a modest 7, but cranked out 35,000 words on my writing project. I’m not entirely good at recalling my much older …

Year in Review (Reading) 2018

Year in Review (Reading) 2018 Unlike other past years, this year my writing was cut back in certain ways, though I still wrote a lot. In consequence, my read skyrocketed. Well, this is not just due to my shifted writing duties, but also to a better management of my time. Mainly, I read more before …

Year in Review (Writing) 2018

Year in Review (Writing) 2018 Again, I’ve taken a different approach to writing this year. While I haven’t finish a fiction book, per se, I have put a lot of work into one, and have complete a non-fiction book for my students. First, I’m now more than three-fourths done with my next project—American Snowflakes. It …

Plans for 2019

Plans for 2019 My sentiments are usually the same when it comes to this: I want to push myself, but choosing something to high can be daunting. I had to explain this to my daughter as it came to New Year’s resolutions. But, here are mine: Finish writing two books again this year Last year, …

December in Review 2018

December 2018 My break started mid-month so I was able to toss myself into my writing getting 20,000 words done on my WIP alone, not to mention a whole slew of shorts for other projects. On top of that, I added nine more to the book total to end the year at a nice rounded …

Month in Review: November

November 2018 Busy month with some time off, but sadly did not produce the word count like I wanted, unlike all the Novel Writers out there for this month. I did get a lot of headway into the plot to make next month more easy sailing and hope with my class soon ending to see …

August Recap

August 2018 I’m now back to my usual schedule after my long trip. It took some time for my sleeping pattern to get to normal, but my reading didn’t hurt at all. Unfortunately, it’s been sluggish getting back into my writing. I’m at about the 1/3 mark for my longest writing to date, and I …

End of Month: July 2018

July 2018 Most of this month has been spent traveling, visiting family, stocking up on clothes and American food. Still, I was able to get to much more reading than I thought. Because of this, I’ve pushed my reading to 100 books for the year—way beyond what I’ve reached before, though this month is a …

End of May

May 2018 Gotta lotta reading done. Gotta lotta writing done. Gotta lotta Chewy done. Good month. Books Read First this month was a long time wait…A Wild Sheep Chase. It is technically Murakami’s third book, and the one when he felt he really grew into being an author by discovering the story as he went …

January Review 2018

January 2018 With the new year, I’m deciding to change my reading habit a bit by adding ratings to hopeful make my feelings a bit clearer, if not to also leave a more meaningful impact on certain books I greatly disagree with or loath. Therefore, I will be adding that rating here as well. Or …