Yeah, deciding to make Sunday my 'book review' day the weekend before wedding-cake-baking-weekend and two weekends before NaNoWriMo was a brilliant plan. I am a genius. A total genius.
I have not read anything this week. I've barely even re-read stuff that I've written. I certainly haven't picked up a book... I kind of want to read, but I find that when I start reading in the middle of relatively intense writing, two things happen. First, I start to try to imitate the style of any author that I'm reading. Second, I decide that I am a total hack and can't write anything at all. I know that I'm not a hack, but the first draft is always a great, big, steaming pile of crap. Stinky, smelly crap. Editing always helps, but still... when I'm in the middle of a first draft, I don't like reading other people's work.
I've got a couple of things on my TBR pile, though. I started Confessor, the last book in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. I really want to finish it, but I don't want to pick it up and feel bad about myself... *sigh* Also on the pile, Hush Money by Susan Bischoff. I've been meaning to read it for an awfully long time, and I do need to write a review of it for both Goodreads and Smashwords. Once I'm done my draft, though, I'll get back to my regularly planned reading.
In the meantime, I've been spending my non-writing time with crafting - it lets me be creative and relax in different ways than writing, plus, it lets me feel productive. If you're interested in seeing what I've been doing, go check out my craft blog: Confessions of a Yarn Whore.
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