Author: Hannah E.M.

Written by June 26, 2024

2024 Mid Year Freakout

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It’s been June for a while… which means we’re officially halfway through 2024… which means it’s time for the annual Mid-Year Freakout Tag! In case you’re new around here, this is the one post that I will write with any semblance of consistency. (and on that note, thank you for sticking around with my sporadic

Written by May 8, 2024

How to Start Reading Classics (and ACTUALLY enjoy them)

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Hello everyone! For the past few months, I’ve become increasingly obsessed with reading classics. Frankenstein, Lord of the Flies, Phantom of the Opera, To Kill a Mockingbird . . . the list keeps getting longer.   Before this strange obsession, I had a hard time reading older books. Usually I was required to read them for school,

Written by February 26, 2024

How to Keep From Injuring Your Books

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Greetings, dear readers. It is I, your book. I spend my days sitting on your shelf with my fellow books, waiting for the chance to be read. I must confess, though, that some of us are a bit afraid for that moment. You see, we come out of a bookstore perfectly pristine. Our pages are

Written by January 13, 2024

The “I’ll Get Around To It Later” Tag

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I had no ideas for January’s post and not very much time to come up with said ideas. During this dilemma, I stumbled upon my friend Liesl‘s “I’ll Get Around To It Later” tag. So today I have a more lighthearted and chill post for you. We’ll go back to our regularly scheduled programming soon,

Written by January 1, 2024

The End of 2023 (a recap)

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Even though it’s now 2024, I’ve spent a good bit of time thinking about the insane year of 2023. It’s tradition at this point to do a yearly recap, so before I ramble too much about how weird it feels to be in 2024, we’ll get started.  🙂 My 2023 Story Consumption  Reading I’m actually

Written by December 16, 2023

What Youth Orchestra Taught Me About Writing

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The writer dream is a special one. Timelines and paths may vary from writer to writer, but the basic dream is this: 1) You pour your heart and soul into writing a novel. 2) Your novel gets published. 3) Your novel impacts people.  Maybe your book makes it on the bestseller list. Or perhaps it

Written by October 7, 2023

The Haystack Butte Square Dance (short story excitement)

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Today, I have exciting news.  One night, I stayed up late and wrote a short story by hand. That story grew up. It was typed on the computer, put through rounds of edits and prodded by the fantastic writers in my critique group (thank you, Kirsten, Karli, Eliana, Sara, Rebecca, Heidi, Lulu, and Anna!) It

Written by September 13, 2023

Why You Should Take a Break from Instagram (and how to make it effective)

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I used to spend so much of my life on Instagram. Nearly every day, multiple times a day, I liked posts, tapped through stories and checked notifications. In attempts to build a platform, I posted staged pictures of books or flowers or sunsets. I spent so much time trying to write an engaging, not-too-long-but-not-too-short caption. 

Written by July 15, 2023

2023 Mid-Year Reading Adventures

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Hello friends! It’s good to see you again.  We’re a little over halfway into 2023, and I realized that it’s been a hot minute since I talked about books. In an attempt to amend that issue, I shall recap some of my recent reading adventures for the first half of 2023.  “Mood Reading”  For the

Written by June 7, 2023

Why You Should Get A Summer Job As A Writer (+ Project Live Your Story Summertime!)

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Summer has pretty much arrived (contrary to the calendar’s beliefs) and with that comes the idea of summer jobs.  I’ve spent the past few summers working different jobs and experiencing new things, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized how valuable those adventures have been – both for me as a person and for

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