Monthly Wrap-Up: March

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great Easter Jesus conquering the grave! Sunday was a good day. This was the first Easter I’ve celebrated at our new church, Harvest. They had confetti exploding everywhere during worship, popcorn, and doughnuts in the lobby and a photobooth thing. I hear the children got to go crazy with celebrations too. Overall, it was a really amazing, celebratory, triumphant atmosphere. We had a day on Saturday with family and then on Sunday we had an Easter egg hunt (of course) and lots of candy was eaten.

Anyways, as the weekend came and went so did March! I didn’t even realize it until I looked at my phone and realized it was April 1! March was a great month, not just because it was my birthday month, but because it was just… good. There’s no real particular reason why. Maybe because it wasn’t too busy near the end of the month.

March Writing: Writing-wise, I think it was the beginning of March, end of February that I sent out Project Hellion to beta readers. I’m still waiting for the feedback from most of them, but I’m excited to see what they have to say and to get back to fixing it up. I’ve also been debating on whether I want to continue to pursue self-publication for this book or if I want to try and go the more traditional route. I also revised Golden and have it at a good place to where I can print it out and mark it up on paper, but before I do that, I want to finish revising Silver which is… well very daunting. So daunting, that I’ve been procrastinating even looking at the book. Most of it will need to be completely rewritten or switched around and it just feels sort of daunting and like a lot of work.

It’ll be worth it, but I just don’t think I’m ready to dig into that book yet, so instead of working on that like I should be, I’m writing a small collection of short stories for a class project. I want the theme to be more supernatural. I have several supernatural stories in Of Magic and Mayhem, but most of them are more magical/fantasy. I want this one to have more stories with like werewolves, vampires, banshees, that sort of thing. Maybe a retelling or two. I want to write at least five, just to give myself a challenge and have something to work on and accomplish. I just finished one of the short stories, a werewolf one. I’m still trying to come up with a name for it. I also wrote the backstory of Sebastian, my vampire from my vampire hunter book at the beginning of the year that I’m going to add. So, yeah, most of April will probably be full of short stories and hopefully working on finishing revisions and edits for Project Hellion.

March Reading: In March I read three books. The first one was The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert.

It was good… very dark and there was a lot of swearing. I hate when characters swear left and right for no reason. Just because your main characters are teenagers doesn’t mean they go around swearing every other word. Plot-wise the beginning caught my attention and I really enjoyed it, but as the story went on it started to lag. It got sort of confusing and boring and the end wasn’t very fulfilling. I wasn’t very invested in the main character either only because she didn’t seem very compelling or likable. She’s coming out with another one, but I don’t think I’m going to read it.

The second book I read was The Lost Frost Girl by Amy Wilson.

Now this one I thoroughly enjoyed. It was magical and whimsical and so sweet. Her writing was a little iffy at first, but I feel like it got stronger as the book went on. The plot was the sweet, typical MG theme of finding where you belong and who you really are as a person. Finding yourself. That is one of my favorite themes. Plus, it was all about the daughter of Jack Frost and I’ve always loved the idea of Jack Frost. It was really good and if you like MG, then I highly recommend this book.

The last book I read for March was The Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levensellar.

I really liked the first book, but I thought the writing could use some work. It was good, but it still wasn’t my favorite, but with this second book it got so much better! Her writing has definitely improved, and the plot was really good, better than the first book. She wrapped everything up really nicely at the end. I love happy endings so that made me happy to have a good ending. And! On the final day of March, I started reading Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton which I have been waiting for the library to get for a whole month! So now I am currently reading that.

March TV Shows: (I’m going to skip music cuz usually my update for that is always the same cuz I listen to the same bands and songs over and over again for years without too much variety…) In March, the last season of Star Wars Rebels ended! I was so sad, but so happy it ended well. I was really nervous they were going to mess it up like I always am for the end of a show, but I’m glad they did it well. Though… in typical Jedi fashion, Ezra had to do something mysterious and say some mysterious unanswered things that need to be answered sooner rather than later. They had better make another series, that is all I gotta say. Also, Krypton and Siren came on. Siren was a good surprise. I didn’t think it was going to be very good because it’s Freeform and they can be kind of iffy, but its actually really good and I’m looking forward to seeing how this season goes. As for Krypton, I was pretty excited for this show and it didn’t disappoint.

Plus, the day after my birthday, March 10^th was the anniversary for TVD ending. That was sad… It’s been a full year without TVD and soon The Originals will be wrapping up their series with their final season which makes me sad. But I am happy that they plan on making a spin-off of the Originals about teenage Hope and Alaric’s school for witches and the supernatural. How awesome will that be?

March Life Stuff: I’m trying to think about what happened in March… I know the beginning of the month was sort of busy-ish but I can’t remember why… My mom, me and my brother Tristan drove to my grandmas for a day while my dad watched the little boys so that was a nice mini day-vacation. My birthday happened! I’m officially twenty. That was a really good day and I’m glad because last year’s birthday wasn’t so great… Then there was Easter and we had a busy/fun day on Saturday with family and then Easter on Sunday. And yeah, that’s about it I think. There’s some college stuff I’m figuring out. I thought I wanted to go to IU this Fall, but I’m deciding on what I actually want to do. I think I know what I want to do besides be a writer. To some this may sound lame or boring, but I kind of want to work at a library like full time. Now that I think about it, I’ve been saying that for years. I remember when I was much younger, and I had thought about being a librarian and everyone thought that was sort of a boring job. But now, I don’t care what people say. I think it’s a good fit and I want to take a few library sciences classes this Fall instead to prepare and just have. So yeah, that planning for the future has been going on for most of March in my head of trying to figure out what I want to do and what would be the best path for me.

Overall, March was a good month and I’m excited for what April will bring. Mainly for Legion, The 100 and The Originals to start. 

Plus, only one month left and then I get a break from classes! Have a great week everyone!!