Mid-Year Update and 2018 Reads
Idk if I'll ever get the hang of blogging on the regular; but since it's the middle of 2018, I might as well spring one up amidst all the ucky-mucky news cycle of the past 7 months. Looking at my 2018 writing goals from my last post, I'm proud to be accomplishing 2 of the 4: Re-worked my NING SANTOS WIP and am 11k into drafting, which isn't technically a lot...but it reads a lot better than what I had reworked back in January. Completed and surpassed my 2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge!!! Set myself up for 6 books and ended up reading 8: 5 Middle Grade books by Asian American authors 1 YA book by an Asian American author 2 poetry collections by Asian American poets. Currently on my 9th read: Nightbooks by J.A. White , my only non-POC/non-APIA authored read so far. Current poetry WIPs aren't quite yet ready for submitting, but I do have a forthcoming poem publication this year in Hay(na)ku Anthology #15 (they'll be having a book launch in Septembe...