48 Hour Book Challenge: 5 Hours, 35 Minutes

So, I'm on part two, where Maud tells about her past. All I can say is, yikes! I can see why she's so strange! I saw the miniseries but if I remember right they didn't go into quite as much detail about how... weird her childhood was.

Time Breakdown: (All times PST)

7:40- 8:10 Reading
8:10-8:15 Blogging
8:15-9:15 Reading
9:15-9:20 Blogging
9:20-10:24 Reading
10:24-2:15 Napping
2:15-2:20 Blogging
2:20-5:20 Reading
5:20-5:25 Blogging

Reading Total- 5:35
Blogging Total- :20
Napping Total- 3:50

48 Hour Book Challenge: Whoops...

How am I only at 2 hours, 35 Minutes you ask? I fell asleep for 4 hours! Oops!

Time Breakdown- (All times PST)

7:40- 8:10 Reading
8:10-8:15 Blogging
8:15-9:15 Reading
9:15-9:20 Blogging
9:20-10:24 Reading
10:24-2:15 Napping
2:15-2:20 Blogging

Reading Total: 2:35
Blogging Total: :15
Napping Total: 3:50

48 Hour Book Challenge: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes

Counting only the time spent reading and not the time spent blogging, I am at 1 hour and 30 minutes total. Still reading Fingersmith of course (Do you know anyone capable of reading an entire 582 page novel in 1 hour and 30 minutes? Even with a 50-or-so page head start?). I saw the BBC Miniseries before I got the book, so I was a little worried I wouldn't be able to get into it, but I have discovered my fears were for nothing. Sure, I remember what happens, and I don't get the chance to form my OWN picture of the characters, but there is a lot more depth to the book that just couldn't have come out in the miniseries.

Time Breakdown Thus Far: (All times PST)

7:40- 8:10 Reading
8:10-8:15 Blogging
8:15-9:15 Reading
9:15-9:20 Blogging

Reading Total- 1:30
Blogging Total- :10

Now for more reading!

48 Hour Book Challenge: 30 Minutes

I've been reading a little bit of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters for a couple of days and so I decided to go ahead and keep reading it rather than starting a new book. I just finished reading the part where the main character, Sue Trinder, describes her journey from London to Briar. It was exhausting just reading about it, she sounds so miserable!

48 Hour Book Challenge: Starting Line

I literally JUST heard about this from reading my sister's blog (Lessons From The Head) and it sounds awesome! So even though I just read about this like 5 minutes ago and I'm totally unprepared, it sounds like fun so I'm gonna go for it!

So I'm starting. Right Now.

Starting Line: Friday, 7:40 AM (PST)

Sorry!

I did it again. This time it's been 5 months (as if anyone even reads this anyway). I've just been totally busy with class, and I've been thinking through a few ideas for stories and still haven't managed to pin one down to focus my time on. I have about four ideas floating around, and I keep jumping from one to the other. Maybe I'll eventually just finish them all at the same time and suddenly have four completed stories after having none.

I think my main problem is that all the ideas are vastly different. Two are sort of supernatural horror stories, One is an idea for a series about a werewolves with a teen audience in mind, and no, that one is nothing like Twilight. It's much darker. and the last one is an idea for a series of novels about a group of time travelers that would be in a sequence similar to Harry Potter in that as the characters age so would the target audience. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but it's kind of like how in the first Harry Potter the main characters are 11, and the story is written in such a way that it's primary appeal is to kids around 11 years old. The content certainly matured that way. The 7th book, the one in which the main characters are all 17, is clearly targeted to an older teen audience. I hope that makes sense, but I'm just kind of writing this on the fly, the same way I write all my other posts.

Anyway, the last idea about the time travelers, I'm really into that one right now. Especially since the story I have in my head is ridiculously fun. I first had the idea for it last summer, and it's weird that as this summer is starting, so my interest in the idea is reigniting at the same time.

Happy New Year

It's been about 2 months since my last post. Man I'm bad about this... I think I need to just start posting every time something random pops up into my head. Sure, it'll be really annoying, but at the same time I'll get in the habit of writing more often and eventually (hopefully) something interesting will pop out of my head and onto the computer screen.