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July Monthly Wrap-Up

Hey everyone! So I almost completely forgot about July's monthly wrap up! But, so here it is!

July Writing: So for most of July I've been working on an assortment of different projects. I finished writing my YA fantasy serial called Easthallow. Then I started working on Blood Brothers, the sequel to Sterling Silver (which is on Wattpad if you want to check it out). Right now I'm in the middle of Blood Brothers actually and am loving every second of writing it! I'm pretty sure at the beginning of the month I also worked on revisions for Golden which are going very slowly. And now I am finishing up edits for Project Hellion. I really thought it would be completely ready by the beginning of August but now I'm thinking the end of August. Anyways, so yeah, it's been a busy writing month. I feel like I've gotten so much done and have been working on so much which feels really good. Once I finish Blood Brothers I have my heart set on starting either my Alice in Wonderland or Peter Pan retelling, but I'm not sure which yet. All I know is I am very excited about both of those projects. I also am so happy and excited at how many reads I've gotten on Sterling Silver. It's only my first book on there and it has 166 reads! I just hope people like Blood Brothers as much, if not more, than Sterling Silver.

July Reading: I haven't read this much in a very long time. At the start of July I took more of a notice in Wattpad and tried to find some books to read and, well, I sort of got carried away. I can't believe how many books I read in July! I'm sure it's not as many as some read in a month, but for me it's been quite a lot. I read Belle Morte, Revelations and Hunted by Bella Higgin on there (a vampire series with a world that reminds me a little bit of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown). Then I moved on to Friends with the King of the Underworld and the sequel Saving the King of the Underworld by Lovepenny which is a Fae New Adult series that I am loving! She took down the sequel to rewrite and will, I am hoping, have the third book up in September! And now I have moved onto A Cap Stained with Blood by K. D. Campbell which is also a book set in the world of the Fae. It's much darker than the King of the Underworld series though, with Redcaps and all the more vicious Fae, but I'm loving it so far. Reading on Wattpad has reawakened my love for just some good YA romance. Most of the main characters are college age though, so they feel more in the New Adult section which I think is pretty cool. I've never read in New Adult but I'm really loving it cuz these characters are all my age and in the same sort of stage of life as I am. It's just nice to get lost in a goof fantasy romance sometimes. And now I just started a debut novel by Alexa Donne called Brightly Burning. It's a YA sci-fi and reminded me of Starflight so I checked it out. I'm so glad I did because I'm loving it. I'm not a huge fan of hardcore sci-fi. I like sci-fi books like Starflight or Alienated by Melissa Lander. Spaceships, the occasional alien, cool gadgets and plenty of romance. It's more a subgenre of science fiction I feel like, set in a smaller scale world. Not so much Star Trek or Star Wars but more like Firefly. Anyways, I'm enjoying it a lot.

July Life Stuff/Random: July has been full of math studying since I have to get around to taking a math test to get into math classes at my college. That's been my main goal and now that its August I really do need to hurry up and pass the test. Other than that, not much has been going on. Though I have been seeing a lot of movies in the past few months. I saw Ant-Man and the Wasp which I loved! My brother and I thought it was hilarious whereas our parents thought it was Ok. And that end-credit scene? That blew my mind and made me feel so bad for every character involved.

Anyways, so yeah. It's been a good month and I'm not looking forward to my free summer ending. Classes are starting soon which is a bummer, but I'm also ready to jump back into it, even if I'm not exactly excited about it. Be ready for a goodbye post for The Originals on Friday. Every time I think about this week being the last week of The Originals airing forever it makes me so sad!

Have a great week everyone! 

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