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“I missed feeling that deep curiosity about people, that spark of excitement when you realized you had something in common or admiration when you uncovered a hidden talent or quality.”

Beach Read, Emily Henry

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February Wrap Up!

Things I wrote:

24,150 words of original novel draft (since scrapped and now being reworked. I’m a mess) 

6,074 words in soulmate AU. Five chapters sent to beta.

5,159 words in Shakespeare themed one shot.

1,178 in my writing tools file.

Finally took another editing pass through W&H. Completed chapters 1-8 so far.

Things I read:

Fiction:

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Love at First by Kate Clayborn

Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

You Had me at Hola by Alexis Daria

Well Met by Jen Deluca

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Shipped by Angie Hockman

You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Majesty by Katharine McGee

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Much Ado About You by Samantha Young

Nonfiction:

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World by Sarah Stewart Johnson

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Things I’m reading and writing heading into March:

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos

The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins (pretty sure I’ll be reading this until the end of time. It is very long and very dense and my threshold is like…30 minutes at a time lol)

At least 25k in original novel draft 2.0

Finish Shakespeare themed one-shot.

At least 10k in Soulmate AU + send the rest of the currently drafted chapters to beta

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When you are surrounded by love, you have nothing to fear.

-Catherine Isaac, You Me Everything

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I want to kiss him and pretend everything’s okay.

- Catherine Isaac, You Me Everything

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Mood 24/7

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“When people ask you to ‘express your feelings’, they don’t mean your actual feelings. They mean the feelings that they want you to have. Because people can’t deal with dark or scary, or weird. They want you to smile and say ‘Yeah, I’m fine, everything’s great’, because then they can just go on with their boring lives, and never think about you again.”

— Degrassi

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WHEN A CHARACTER GETS WOUNDED AND THEY GO TO THEIR LOVE INTEREST FOR HELP AND WHILE THEY’RE GETTING THEIR INJURIES CLEANED AND PATCHED UP THEY FLINCH FROM THE STING OF THE ANTISEPTIC AND THEIR LOVE INTEREST SAYS “HOLD STILL” IN AN EXASPERATED BUT TOUCHINGLY CONCERNED TONE OF VOICE AND THEN THEY ACCIDENTALLY MAKE EYE CONTACT OR BRUSH HANDS AND JUST FREEZE IN THAT POSITION UNTIL THE TENSION IN THE ROOM IS NEARLY UNBERABLE BEFORE BOTH LOOKING AWAY AND PRETENDING THE UNSPOKEN THING THAT JUST PASSED BETWEEN THEM NEVER HAPPENED

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MY BABIES!!! like if u save/use @dariasculIy

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“Sometimes, the thing we want is right in front of us, and we’re the last ones to see it.”

— Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

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“It’s a real testament to my emotional deformity that I am capable of exhausting even the best people.”

— Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

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“I’m lonely. I’m lonely because I don’t tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don’t figure it out on their own.”

— Christina Lauren , My Favorite Half-Night Stand

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“My greatness may not come across on-screen, but is impossible to ignore in person.”

— Christina Lauren , My Favorite Half-Night Stand

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enemies to lovers combined with marriage of convenience is the best mix of tropes and you cannot convince me otherwise   

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You are the books you read, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the people you spend time with, the conversations you engage in. Choose wisely what you feed your mind.

Google

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Maybe sometimes all we need are those chance encounters that help us see what we’ve been missing.

Lauren Blakely, The Virgin Gift (The Gift, #2)

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“Coming up with book ideas is sometimes as simple as sitting back and observing everyday life.”

— K.A. Tucker, Say You Still Love Me

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Food was my currency. Hungry was an emotion for me. I felt that shit in my soul.

— Abby Jimenez , The Friend Zone