On my homeschool blog, Keep the Way, I shared how school has now become a reward for my girls if they clean up their mess and listen! I am sure they will get over that reward system eventually but right now, I am milking it for all it’s worth. And they have the right attitude, […]
Wow! This book was impressive. This was 18 year old Kody Keplinger’s debut novel (although I think I read somewhere she was 17 when she wrote it). It has been called The Catcher in the Rye for this generation–and did you get the part that she is a teenager?? The Duff stands for Designated Ugly […]
Last week, I shared my goals of getting through revisions and writing two more chapters. Well I did complete revisions on the first 1/3 of my contemporary YA romance, and did a lot of work with my outline. I thought that is all I would have to say but I just finished writing another chapter!! […]
Fridays are days to catch up on family events over at our homeschooling family blog Keep The Way. Please feel free to join me over there to see our exciting adventures, ha! Have a wonderful weekend!
I love Jenn Echols! I have read all of her books and will review them all on here at some point, but this is her latest. It came out July 20th and I am ashamed it took me this long to purchase it. Forget You is a YA contemporary romance filled with the usual Echols […]
My current WIP (work in progress) is a contemporary YA romance set in Texas. I started working on the outline and characters in July and began active writing in the beginning of August. Current Word Count: ahh, the beauty of editing and revising! This time last week it was 20,000. As of this moment, it […]
For this first installment of Tuesday’s Tales of the Teenage Years, I thought I would start with an embarrassing moment that everyone can relate to — the first date. My first date really tops the charts of embarrassment. I was 13 years old and while I had gone to the movies in groups and went […]
HAPPY LABOR DAY!!! Okay, now that THAT is out of the way, I thought I would quickly share how I got to know my characters for my current WIP. It is a dual POV story, so I have two main characters. I went the most in-depth with these two, and each probably have about ten […]
** This is updated as I am adjusting my Tuesday schedule to be Truthful Tuesday (used to be TTTY). Description has been changed below** I have been thinking about how I want to use this blog. I have a homeschooling blog that I have been doing for about 2 years now (to varying degrees of […]
Totally don’t know if everyone does this already or not, but I did something fun this weekend that really brought my manuscript to life. I went through the document, using the handy dandy binocular/find thingy, and put all my diallgue in a Word Document. Next, I sorted it by character and color coded it. Then […]
