Summer Blog Scavenger Hunt Stop #6

*interrupting this program*

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Hello and welcome! I imagine there are a lot of new faces stopping by here, so I hope you enjoy stopping here! Basically I'll be rambling all things related to summer, books and writing for this scavenger hunt. Let's jump into today's post!

But wait, if you have no idea what is going on, head on over here. 

Now into the post! 😁

The rules for the scavenger hunt:

1. The hunt begins on 5/7 at midnight EST.
2. Don't rush! You've got all weekend (until Sunday, 5/9 at midnight) to hunt. So take your time, checking out all the unique posts along the way. Share your thoughts in the comments or the blogs with your friends!
3. Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the clue (code stream) on each blogger's scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the Rafflecopter form at the final stop on Grace's site!

I love summer. Summer is my favourite season and one I have a lot of grace for (winter won't receive any kindness from me unless it has particularly warm sunny day). Summer makes me happy and I feel a a lot more creative than in winter. My birth month is also in summer, so very fond memories are attached to it.

If there's one thing I love about summer is that it is hot. I despise the cold so much that the hot and the sweat never bothers me. I also love summer rains and storms. Just something so beautiful about them. 

But I'm not the person who plans big things to do in summer or has certain things I specifically do in summer. And I'm definitely not the person who pays attention to new book releases in any time of the year. Mainly because I'm generally a few years behind with book series, new books from new authors, and favourite authors and their releases, both old and new. I'm still playing catch up with quite a lot of bookish things. Maybe one day I will be able to pay more attention to these things, but right now, I'm still trying to read the books that were released years ago, books that released when I was a child still (that is so weird to me sometimes. Do you get that feeling? Or is it just me?) as well as the already out new releases too. Just a lot of catching up.

Also it doesn't help that a lot of books that released in my summer are released in the authors' winter. That fact alone makes summer releases for me quite tricky, to say the least. 😅 I don't know how to explain it other than it feels weird to think these books are releasing in my summer when they technically not, even though they are. I don't think that makes sense.

That isn't saying that I am not planning to read summery books in the foreseeable future. I don't know it will be summer or not when I do read them, though it would honestly be nice to read a summer book when it isn't in reality.

👇 So these are the books I'm planning to read next once I've finish reading all of the books I am reading now (I'm reading several books at once and I hate it as well as love it). They are How We Rise by Brooke Riley and 100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons. I've heard How We Rise is set in summer so I thought it was a perfect book to mention. And if you know anything about 100 Days of Sunlight is just screams "summer" all over of it. The cover alone has summer feels. And what's so cool about these books are that they are both indie published books!!! Plus my first physical copies of books from indie authors. So I'm very excited to dig into them once I'm able to. 😍

And just like I don't plan life things for summer, I don't (so far) plan my writing or have writing goals to tackle for the summer season. But it's worth to mention considering that study is a focus right now and I haven't been writing a lot lately. Summer has the longest holiday and while I didn't write much during last summer, it doesn't mean I won't this summer. So I definitely, vaguely, plan to make a significant dent in my writing progress this summer.

I'm still slowly working through Our Scattered Ashes, aka Smoke's story. Every time I sit down to write this story, the words just flow. It's amazing. But procrastination, tiredness and study is keeping me away from my story more than I like. But it's just a season and it won't last forever, plus I still really love this story despite it taking forever to be made into a first draft. So assuming that during summer writing would be easier to do, I'm hoping to get quite a few thousand words added to my word count (and that I will be a lot more closer to the end than before). 

I also happen to be writing a short story on the side set in summer and that is inspired by a summer themed quote. I'm not going to say much else about it here, that's for another day. But anyway, if I haven't written the first draft by summer, I'll continue writing it then and hopefully finish it as well. If I have written it by then, I think I will edit it or revise it, depending on how much I want to change it through a read through and/or feedback.

So that's it! Don't forgot to pick up the clue and follow the next link!

Need a hint for the clue? Comment below. Had something I said stand out to you? Comment below. Or you have any thoughts about anything, comment below! Or you don't comment below because I said comment below so much and that annoyed you. That's fair. I'm cool with that. It's also fine to not comment if you have nothing you want to say to this complete stranger or whatever I am to you. Wow, I am rambling in this section too. I'll stop now. 😂 

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