July 2021 Wrap up

What! July is over already? I feel like we just did this. This month was really busy. From fourth of July parties to parades (of which, I was in two), being sick for a week, and hanging out with friends.

Let’s take a look at a few of the things that went on this past month!

Reading

I’m reading two books right now and I’m not done with either of them. I just struggle to find the time to read. I’ve been thinking about doing the seven books in seven days challenge but I want to do it before school starts.

Watching

Wonder Woman 1984: I mentioned to a friend that I wanted to see this movie so she brought it over and we made cookies and watched it together. It was the greatest superhero movie I’ve seen in a long time. The themes were amazing! I can’t remember the last time I watched a superhero movie with themes that moved me so much! It was the perfect example of villains of circumstance, which I was planning on talking about this month.

Sweet Tooth: If you have not seen Netflix’s Sweet Tooth you are missing out. This show is amazing! It’s intense, scary, mysterious, and omg, the ending! I don’t want to wait a year for the next season!

The Dark Crystal — Age of Resistance: I forgot how great this show was. I didn’t finish it when it first arrived on Netflix. I’m a big Jim Henson fan and I can say they did the original justice. The ending was a little disappointing. I wish they made another season.

Writing

I have made HUGE progress! after finally finished the third chapter in my second draft. I looked over my outline and decided to go back into my first draft and write few of the scenes I just added. I finished chapter fourteen, which was a chapter that was beginning to dive me nuts thinking I’d never finish it. I’m now back to working on draft two and I’m now on chapter five.

I was sick earlier in the month, and very busy so I ended up taking a week off (which is something that I never do). I had a really hard time getting back into writing but I’m very pleased with the progress I’ve made!

Songs on repeat

Dead Man — Jars of Clay

Favorite lyric: “Woke up from a dream about an empty funeral, but it was better than the party full of people I don’t really know.”

I have been searching for this song for years! I couldn’t remember what it was called. I gave up on finding it a long time ago, and what do you know, I end up finding it on accident!

The Blog

I claimed my domain, so you are now reading the new and improved The Adventures of a Nerd.com! If you enjoy this blog or know someone who would, please share it with them! I’m trying some new things to get my name out there including taking a good look at the content I’m producing. If you have any ideas for posts just leave them in the comments, thank you.

You might have missed this one — Vinyl Record tag

Coming up this month we’ll be talking more about writing negative character arcs, and I have a really fun playlist I’ve been super excited to share with you.

Current Obsessions

Annotating books for fun! I’ll be talking about this more later this month.

I got one of those laptop table stands and it has completely changed my writing game! I don’t know how I was able to write without it! (I’m using it right now, as I write this post)

Also, I got a puppy! She’s a Mini Australian Sheperd. My cat hates her, but I think she’s cute!