Did My Time, Took My Chances // February Recap 2020

Wow guys. This month has been even crazier than January. I mean, midterms, editing The Hedgehog King, and two instances where I could have died! (I didn't in case you were wondering.)

This Month's Posts:

Favorite Literary Romances

Valentine's Day Couple Interview: Rania and Fane
Bet You Thought I Couldn't Do It Again! // 3 Levels of Sarcasm

Other Blogging News:

I finally rewrote my "About Me" page. Phew.
    

Some interesting posts from around the blogging world:

Horses + Writing Parallels from Showers of Blessings

(which I loved cause HORSES and WRITING!) 

  

First Drafting Basics-Time from Saver of Memories

 (which basically reminded me to not ditch my novel, though its in the third draft rather than the first)

Keep Going//It's Worth It from Snapper
(which also got me motivated to keep at it with my current draft and life in general)

More Overheard At College/ Also An Update On My Writing from The Little Bookworm
(which was amazing because I actually caught myself thinking, "Ah. That reminds me of when I was back in college. I'M IN COLLEGE.")

And THIS AMAZING STORY from Storyteller Heart 

And then ANOTHER AMAZING STORY from The Sarcastic Elf 

 

Ah. 
Writing in February. 

Well, it started out pretty weak not gonna lie. I did nothing in the first two weeks.
But it was a good break and I feel motivated to keep working on it and really make it amazing instead of just "getting it done" by the deadline. 
The deadline that I set. That I literally made up. 

But then I got a little motivation and started editing the next chapter! So things are looking up!

And I made some progress with one of the character's development and arc plan by brainstorming with my best alpha Alioth! 

Snippet:
 
“You keep the king of your country in a corner behind a curtain?” 

Books Read This Month: 2

Monthly Book Suggestion: 
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

I'd watched the 1993 film version by Kenneth Branagh and LOVED it and loved the play just as much. The SASS and WIT between Benedick and Beatrice. The plot to get them together. The DRAMA. 

I actually bought a kindle collection of basically every Shakespearean play! 
With this novel, my tally of Shakespearean plays is 4!
The Twelfth Night
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing

I rewatched The Lizzy Bennet Diaries
(which if you don't know, its a video series and its a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice)

Which reminded me of the other series by the same people (same creators, different actors) Emma Approved, a retelling of Emma by Jane Austen.

Which of course reminded me of the Green Gable Fables series (similar concept but by different people) about Anne of Green Gables and the following series.


The fire alarm in my building went off! So I (with a very resigned and bored attitude), made sure my roommate was awake as I put on my shoes, grabbed my coat, my phone, and a book. Yes. I grabbed a book.
Not because I was desperate to save it. (I was pretty sure that there was no fire and it was just a drill) I left my laptop after all! I grabbed the book because I figured we'd be stranded outside for a while and I'd get bored.
I ended up getting cold and actual fire trucks started arriving, so my roommate and I went to a nearby building and we found a classroom facing our building.
My plan was, if it actually started to burn, to find some violin music and play it on my phone, just for the irony and historic humor.

I was a tad bit annoyed that I didn't grab my computer, what with the firetrucks and all...but I wasn't too worried since there was no smoke/flames in my hallway, so I assumed the firemen would be able to put it out before it got too far and The Hedgehog King Draft 3 went up in smoke.

The building did not burn down (which is good since I would have had to revert back to the last draft of The Hedgehog King I shared with Alphas. And while two of my alphas read it over Christmas break, I didn't share the document with them. SO THE ONLY DRAFT I WOULD HAVE HAD WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST DRAFT. I would have lost the Second Draft and the macro edits and all the line edits I've done since.)
Though as we were all standing outside, one guy said, "See? That girl came prepared! She brought a book!"
 
 

BUT WAS THIS THE LAST TIME MY LIFE WAS THREATEN THIS MONTH? NOPE

Of course, I had the same bored attitude about the second threat too. I was more worried about a quiz that I took about at the beginning of class that day than I was about potentially dying. 

Well. 

How do you react to life-threatening events? Do you want to hear about the other threat to my life? (It's slightly more dramatic but just as uneventful...) Do you have a favorite Shakespearean play? Which one should I read next?