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November Wrap-Up

Books I Read This Month

  1. Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
  2. Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
  3. The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez
  4. And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell

Favorite Book This Month

Hardly a competition, obviously it was Call Down the Hawk.



















NaNoWriMo

 I won NaNoWriMo this year (writing 50k words of a novel in 30 days) for the second time in my life! I'm pretty proud of myself, since I haven't been able to finish in the past few years. This year, I'm even almost finished with the novel. Last time I did NaNoWriMo, it took me two more months and about 40k more words to finish the book, but this time, I think I have only 10k or so to wrap it up, so I'll probably be writing the first draft still for another week...and then time for a second draft!
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Judy Krueger said…
Congratulations on your writing! So inspiring.
December 3, 2019 at 12:53 PM
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