Risin' Up, Straight To The Top // End of May

When you're sleep-deprived and suddenly change your blog subheaders from saying "Blog stuff, Writing stuff, etc" to saying "Blog Things, Writing Things, etc"

This Month's Posts: 

How Lovely! Let's Never Visit! // Bookish Places I Love, But Would Never Go To
Summer TBR 2020
Interview With Brooke Riley // How We Rise Book Release Tour
The Best Bookish Opening Lines


Other Blogging News:

Since I'm "only" taking six credits over the summer, I decided to get a jump start on blog posts. The goal is to have the bulk of next semester's posts written so I can focus on school. That way I can still deliver the content I want while not worrying about posts! At this point, I have all of June's posts written (with a little wiggle room for tags, etc) and almost all of August written. And a bit of the more fun posts from September. (I will be taking my usual July hiatus.)


There was a review of one of my new favorite movies, Knives Out, on Movies Meet Their Match! You should all go read it and then immediately jump into the film because AAAH!

Arielle at The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls wrote a post about the 20 things she loves about Star Wars and WOW. The fifth point she made? *claps*

Snapper left the blogging world and she will be sorely missed


JULIAN AND SARAH ARE MAKING SHIPS SECRETS AND SURVIVORS INTO A SERIES

BROOKE'S STORY WAS PUBLISHED AND RELEASED TO THE WORLD

I made great progress this month! Sort of...I basically did nothing during the beginning of the month before getting inspired and working on my retelling project AND drafting a new contemporary novel...

Monthly Word Count: 22, 513


Snippet: 

She cursed and turned away from the sea. When had she started thinking of him by name? Of course she knew his name. She knew all their names. But when had she started thinking of him by his name? For that matter, when had she started thinking about him?

Writing goals for next month: Continue with the line edits and minor scene changes in my retelling. I hit the halfway point already, so I'd like to get to at least 3/4 of the story or ideally, finish this draft.

 For the contemporary novel, I just want to get words down. I don't want to put a word count goal or percentage goal on myself, so I can just write it how it needs to be written instead of rushing to meet self-imposed goals.

Books read: 8 books (* = re-reads) 
Apprentice of Magic, Apprentice of Magic series, by KM Shea [4 stars]
Red Rope of Fate, from the Elves of Lessa series, by KM Shea [5 stars!]
Royal Magic, from the Elves of Lessa series, by KM Shea [5 stars!]
As You Like It by William Shakespeare [4 stars]
Cinderella and the Colonel, Timeless Fairytale Series, by KM Shea *
Beach Read by Emily Henry [5 stars]
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo *
Challenge Accepted by Amanda Abram [3 stars]



Monthly suggestion: The Red Rope of Fate by KM Shea or Beach Read by Emily Henry

Note: Beach Read is a new adult contemporary romance book. Ergo, it has some adult content! Please read responsibly. 

Reading goals for next month: Continue to find time to read and make progress on my TBR before I add more books. Earlier this month I went through my Goodread's TBR and removed all the books that I don't want to read anymore to shrink my TBR pile. I also took sequels to books I haven't read yet and removed them (if I like the first book, I can add it again.) And that lowered by TBR count by over 100 books. 
Now I just have to keep reading while being picky about what I add. Shouldn't be too hard, right? 

How was your month? 

MK