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NaNoWriMo Week 1 + 2 Update (that I forgot to post so here it is)!

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

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A Hectic October Wrap-Up & #Realise Progress Update!

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! *Endless Screaming* This was supposed to be posted on Thursday (hence the modified header) but due to internet outages at home and using all my data on my last assignment meant I couldn’t publish my post when I wanted. Now the internet is back up, which means I bring to you two posts today! I hope you enjoy these and the upcoming posts xx Books Read! I fell very short of achieving my October TBR of 3 books […]

My OC’s Write Letters To Their (Bookish) Fictional Favs (SW#39)

October 23, 2019October 28, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! More #Realise Content! I’m trying to come as close as I can to finishing my first draft of #Realise before NaNoWriMo starts in just over a week so I want to talk about my characters as much as I can. This helps me to get to know them and makes it easier to write about them. In today’s post, I’m having my OCs write letters to their favourite fictional characters in novels that I love! If I have […]

Summoning A Daemon To Write My Novel For Me… (SW#38)

October 9, 2019October 18, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Here’s to writing! I might as well change this series name to Writing Wednesday because, by this point, all I ever talk about is my current WIP, Realise and my multiple existential crises, but mostly Realise. So last week I spoke about my big goals to maybe finish my current WIP #Realise by the start of NaNoWriMo. We all know it’s not happening because I’ve currently been up watching tik-toks for 2 hours with intentions to do homework when […]

My Writing Goals: Finishing #Realise Draft Before NaNoWriMo Begins (SW#37)

October 2, 2019October 4, 2019

My Writing Goals Finishing Realise Draft 1 Before NaNoWriMo Begins 2019 Blog Header Storytime Wednesday - My Writing Goals: Finishing #Realise Draft Before NaNoWriMo Begins (SW#37)

Heyo Bookaholics! I’m the biggest optimist I know when it comes to writing… Hi, you must be new to my blog. Here on Jasper + Spice, I talk about books, organisation and my seriously ambitious writing process. Which if you think about it, is only ambitious for me because I have to put homework before everything else in my life. The writing process in question relates to my current WIP (work in process) titled #Realise. I have a slew of […]

Thoughts On Chapter Lengths (SW#33)

August 14, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Oh hi. This is not another existential crisis! As you’ve most likely derived from the title, I will be talking about chapter lengths in novels. It’s not something people consciously think about because in every novel the lengths are different. For example, Fantasy novels are sometimes split into ‘parts’ with chapters within them to denote the start of another significant event in the storyline, and other novels just have chapters. I once read a novel where most of […]

Meet The Character – Jaz #Realise (SW#31)

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Meet the character! I have been trying to write as much as I can lately. Working in my spare time between tasks at work, at night, in the morning, during lunch, etc. whenever I can, I try to write. I really love this character. Honestly, I think the fact that I went into the story trying to make her a character that everyone will hate, has actually enhanced her more and given me more to work with because […]

Hitting 20k on my WIP (#Realise) & Sharing a Snippet! (SW#30)

July 4, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Holy Sh*tballs I Finally Reached 20k! HAAAIIIII!!! I am in very very high spirits today 🙂 Who knew taking a day off of work after a stressful week would be just what the doctor ordered?! Well, I didn’t, but I feel amazing now. I hope you didn’t think that because I didn’t post yesterday that I was neglecting another Storytime because I’m not. I can’t do that when I knew that today was going to be the day […]

Writer Thoughts Wednesday: Existential Crisis! (SW#29)

June 12, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Existential Crisis and Deep Thoughts Ahead! Welcome back to another Storytime Wednesday where I will be introducing a new segment called Writer Thoughts Wednesday. I will be discussing not only my novel writing but also the random thoughts I have while writing, or about my writing, and turn to you – my readers – to try and understand my thoughts and answer some nagging questions. Today the topic is Existential Crisis, which you can probably relate to. Usually, I would hope […]

Plot Changes in Novel Writing #Realise (SW#28)

May 1, 2019October 3, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Sometimes the story plans itself! Realise. If you follow me on social media, you would have seen me hashtag that word in my stories, and sometimes in photo captions. In case you don’t, Realise is the name of the novel that I am writing! You can read more about the story’s origin in various Nanowrimo-themed posts on this blog as linked below: Nanowrimo 2018 – In which I talk about Nano 2018, why I chose to write this […]