What This Blog Is About

As I explained in my recent YouTube video "Book Haul + Exciting New Writing Project!" (which you can see here: http://youtu.be/Sm27aZoadkw ) I received a large box full of books about writing from my father for Christmukkah (Christmas + Hanukkah). I am determined to absorb every morsel of writing advice these books have to offer and this is how I'll do it: I am going to pretend that I am in a writing class and take notes on important passages or ideas that really speak to me, and every couple chapters or so, I am going to do a little write-up on my thoughts and what I need to remember from what I read and post it on here. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that maybe you lovely, internet-browsing people might like to see what I'm reading and what I think about it.

This blog will not only be about books and writing, though!! I absolutely hate the idea of reining myself in like that. I am going to post about all sorts of things such as: DIY craft projects, beauty products, fashion, cats, Jesus, movies, tattoos, anxiety disorders, my job as a nanny, and I just know there will end up being at least one embarrassing drunk post...

So if you are interested in any of those things, please Follow this blog and get a glimpse into my bear brain as I encounter new things and attempt to process them!

List of Books in the Box Dad Gave Me for Christmukkah:

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Telling Lies for Fun and Profit by Lawrence Block

Writing the Novel by Lawrence Block

Algernon, Charlie and I by Daniel Keyes

Word Painting by Rebecca McClanahan

The Cat on My Shoulder

Roget’s Super Thesaurus

Roget’s Thesaurus of Phrases

On Language by William Safire

Writing for Magazines by Cheryl Sloan Wray

A Treasury of Tips for Writers from Writer’s Digest

Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes

Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See

Anybody Can Write by Roberta Jean Bryant

Stirring the Waters by Janell Moon

What If? by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter

The Midnight Disease by Alice W. Flaherty

On Writing by Stephen King

The Fiction Dictionary by Laurie Henry

A Writer’s Paris by Eric Maisel

No Plot? No Problem! By Chris Baty

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

Sing Me the Creation by Paul Matthews

Fondling Your Muse by John Warner