Reading Journal

I did something today I never thought I would do: I bought Scholastic books!

The book fairs were always too expensive for us, so I ended up getting a lot of trinkets and having a good time window shopping.  However, the other day a friend of mine posted to facebook that the Scholastic Book warehouse in our metro area (didn't even know we had one, honestly) was having a BOGO sale.  HMA had the day off, and HMS was up early enough to go out and do things.  They had the idea to go garage saleing, and I said "Let's make it a threesome." 

Our garage sales were a bit of a bust, but I remembered the Scholastic sale, so we went there and made BANK!  It spurred a renaissance of reading for me.  I want to plow through the books with markers currently in them so that I can get to some of the amazing ones that I bought today.  Still need to add them to my goodreads and shelve them.

Reading/Writing Journal

I've been reading more at home, and plan on reading more in the mornings.  Parking sucks at work, so I arrive about 15 minutes early and sit in the car.  I have been going on list challenges or facebook, but reading a book might be better.  I wonder if I could do scriptures.  I probably should. 

Although I haven't since Saturday, the weather has been more appropriate for reading walks than it has the last few months.  My plan is to use Thursdays as a day to plan my Sunday lessons, since that's my day off.  Once I get my room a little more organized and can find a purse sized notebook (that I know I have at least one of somewhere) I'll work on some poetry.  Being outside and reading books unleashes the poet in me, and those are both in the plans to do more often.

Saturday nights will be devoted to typing them up and journaling, important to fishing out the feelings that I'm feeling and observing.

Reading/Writing Journal

I had the most successful Camp NaNo experience I've ever had.  I made it about half way to my word count goal.  I started getting the slumpy slumps.  I'm starting to wonder if NaNo has served it's purpose for me.  The focus on quantity has me not worrying one bit about quality.  Like, it's not even a blip on my radar.   Which means I know that every other sentence I write is craptastic.  I think subconsciously...I end up disconnecting with my story because I become hyper focused on quantity.  Not sure how to go about fixing that. 

Probably working on writing quality pieces during non-NaNo peaks, I guess. 

My reading game slumped a little bit, but it's picked up.  I'm still focusing on Main Street, and it is so applicable one hundred years later.  I need to hurry up and finish it, though.  My cover is falling apart.