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How is 2020 going for you so far? 2020 has been a busy time for me. I've done a bunch pf prepwork for The Frituals #3, progress so far on the writing of it has been pretty slow so far but
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NaNoWriMo 2019 is starting TOMORROW can you believe it??I am so excited. NaNoWriMo is one of my favorite times of year. This will be my 8th year doing Nano and hopefully my 7th win, below you will find my top 7 Tips for Conquering NaNoWriMo, and making it your best process. If you are late to my site or NaNoWriMo and need to do some last minute prepping, head over to my nanowrimo prep tab! 1.Join the communityBeing a part of NaNo can be very hard. You are slogging away hours at a time on a project within one month. It can feel pretty isolating. So I highly suggest you become a part of the writing community. There are several ways and places you can do this
2. Other Forms of Motivation Throughout the month you are going to have a lot going on. And sometimes the idea of just focusing on Nano is going to SUCK. We all hit that point where we freaking HATE our stories and wonder why should we even go on and whats the point and… you get the idea. This is a great time to take a step back and put your focus and motivation toward something no where near writing. For example, this year I started running road races again, I am currently 3 weeks into a 14 week training program for a race in January. Going on those long runs will be a time for me to take a step back for me, and focus on another thing I love to do. 3. Writing sprints are when you set a timer for a period of time between 5 mins- 1 hour and you “sprint” and try to write as many words as possible during this time. These can be self run using apps like Pomodora or Forest, or hosted by people on twitter, nanowrimo, youtube , facebook or instagram. I will be hosting events this year on my youtube! So make sure you are subscribed to be notified when I go live! 4. Don't Self Edit during NovemberThis can be quite difficult, especially if you are like me and have recently come off an extended time of editing or revising. But editing is just going to slow down your process. At the bare minimum at the end of a writing day I will run spell check. But I try not to do more than this unless I am quite ahead on my project. If I am ahead, I may run a chapter or two through Grammarly. But editing is for later. It is national novel WRITING month for a reason. The editing part comes later, the NaNoWriMo website actually has a program called “you wrote a novel now what?” that happens in January. 5. Family and Friends SupportOne big thing I always do is to let my friends and family who interact with me on a daily basis know that I will be doing NaNoWriMo. Explaining it prior to to getting started helps to allivate any question when you get started about why you are being a crazy hermit. 6. Build a RoutineMake writing a part of your daily routine (if you don't have one definitely practice one this month.) If you know every day around 2 o'clock you have around an hour of free time, that is a great time to get in a bit of writing, you will find once you make a set routine you will have a lot of free time open up. For example, I get up just about every morning and while I make my breakfast I watch a Phil Defranco news recap and unload, and reload the dishwasher. Just the little things, so I don't have to worry about it at the end of my day. 10. Have FunJust freaking have fun with it, enjoy the process of story telling. Many people (Myself included) get way to intense during NaNo, it's a personal competition to do better than the year before, to be faster to whatever. But it doesn't have to be like that, like at all. Take you time, enjoy the process and see what you learn about yourself. You would be surprised what your brain has in store
Thanks and Good luck on your nano journey!! ORDER REBELLION https://www.katelyncostello.com/rebel... Order The Frituals (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Frituals-Katel... My site https://www.katelyncostello.com/the-f... Follow me on the interwebs: amazon.com/author/katelyncostello https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5... Twitter @Scripturienting IG: @authorkatelyncostello Facebook: Author Katelyn Costello Youtube: KatelynCostello www.katelyncostello.com https://www.pinterest.com/ladykate100...  Leah on the Offbeat (Creekwood #2) by Becky Albertalli Audible Audio, Unabridged Published April 24th 2018 by Harper Audio Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended. My thoughts...So as you can probably tell by now when I read Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda by Beck Albertali I ended up going on a reading binge of Albertali's books. This is the last review of her's you will see for a few weeks but you will see her coauthoring a book in a few weeks.
Leah isn't a perfect character. She has flaws, she isn't "nice" she is angsty. She is angry, she is hurting. and I LOVED HER. I am so happy we go to see her side for senior year after spending time with Simon. It was a great look at a young person going through some STUFF in high school, and how you will and can make it through. From home life, to body issues, and again facing high school romance. I really appreciated this book for so many reasons. And I really hope they make this into a movie too... Still haven't watched Love Simon... the sentiment still stands.  The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli Audiobook Published April 11th 2017 by Balzer + Bray Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back. There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker Reid. He’s an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right? My thoughts...The Upside of Unrequited was definitely the kind of story that had I read it in high school I probably wouldn't have like it. It was cute, and all about boys, and relationships and summer flings... but it was also about being a twin, having same sex parents, making friends, and growing up. And that is what made me like it. There was so much more to the story. I really enjoyed it and I hope you did too if you have read it what did you think?
ORDER REBELLION https://www.katelyncostello.com/rebel... Order The Frituals (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Frituals-Katel... My site https://www.katelyncostello.com/the-f... Follow me on the interwebs: amazon.com/author/katelyncostello https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5... Twitter @Scripturienting IG: @authorkatelyncostello Facebook: Author Katelyn Costello Youtube: KatelynCostello www.katelyncostello.com https://www.pinterest.com/ladykate100...  Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood #1) by Becky Albertalli Hardcover, 303 pages Published April 7th 2015 by Balzer + Bray Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised. With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met. My Thoughts....I went into Simon vs the Homosapien agenda (From now on I will refer to the title as Sv.HA cause I am ) or as the movie retitled it Love, Simon with an open mind but also with some trepidation. I hated HATED contemporary romance in high school. I thought they were way to sappy, that the characters were to one dimensional and a lot of the time annoying. I was such a romantic in high school (honestly I was just didn't want to read it.) Since reading The Perks of being a Wallflower last summer two summers ago I was more interested in it.
I knew I wanted to read Sv.HA before seeing the movie but I hadn't gotten around to it. Finally I ordered the audio book and I was hooked. It was sweet, and the problems that Simon faced as a gay student who was grappling with his sexuality and what that meant to him, and general school issues were relatable.* I don't know what about it made me enjoy it so much after not liking contemporary as a kid, maybe it was time and space, being in my own happy relationship where I can see the same things that happened with my relationship, the friendships. Overall this was a really cute story, and I can't wait to see the movie. Which I still haven't done months after reading the book... What did you think of this book? *I say relatable but some of it was not aka being a (mostly) closeted student. I am straight but I was able to relate to the crush flutters. See you soon! ORDER REBELLION https://www.katelyncostello.com/rebel... Order The Frituals (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Frituals-Katel... My site https://www.katelyncostello.com/the-f... Follow me on the interwebs: amazon.com/author/katelyncostello https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5... Twitter @Scripturienting IG: @authorkatelyncostello Facebook: Author Katelyn Costello Youtube: KatelynCostello www.katelyncostello.com https://www.pinterest.com/ladykate100... Hello, My Scripturients, My readers and my writer friends. I haven't done a writing update in well over a year. And that is tragic because I used to honestly love to write these little updates for you. But I got busy, and it was easier to put a two min word vomit clip on youtube than it was to actually sit down and articulate my thoughts. I took a break from this. And a break from youtube. But I am back now and am ready to get back into attempting to put my thoughts down. If you have purchased a copy of Rebellion, you will have the key to knowing what the next book I will be writing is called. If you don't have it yet... I will be at a few book events in the next few weeks or sign up for my mailing list. I will be sharing a lot there and on Patreon. But I made a timeline for myself that is quite fast so you won't be waiting too long for a new book from me, don't you worry. I will have a lot more information for you come October 4th. There I said it. The deadline is out there. Anyway, this is just a little post to say that I am extremely happy to be where I am right now. That I am on to the next project but that it is a break from The Fritual Saga. I will be back to that shortly, I just want to take this little side jaunt and refresh my brain before jumping back in. With lots of love Katelyn See you soon! PRE ORDER REBELLION https://www.katelyncostello.com/rebel... Order The Frituals (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Frituals-Katel... My site https://www.katelyncostello.com/the-f... Follow me on the interwebs: amazon.com/author/katelyncostello https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5... Twitter @Scripturienting IG: @authorkatelyncostello Facebook: Author Katelyn Costello Youtube: KatelynCostello www.katelyncostello.com https://www.pinterest.com/ladykate100... "If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it." |
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