Book Display Ideas: Fall and November

Veteran's Day:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541078570702/

Fall Reading: new books / books with red, yellow, and orange covers

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541075574554/

or 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541075551409/

Cozy Reading:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/183099541077373343/

Movie Tie-Ins:

Dr. Strange: Marvel books, superhero books, books with unexpected twists

Arrival: Aliens

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them: Fantasy Books

Edge of Seventeen: Drama drama drama

Display Ideas: November

Welcome to November. Fall hit with a vengeance of colder weather and rain here in New England. It gave me the perfect excuse to curl up with a book or two and snuggle with the puppy. One of things I miss about being a YA Librarian is making displays. So I thought maybe I'd write up a few posts about display ideas and create a monthly blog post.

November is:

National Write a Novel Month

Aviation History Month

Adoption Awareness Month

Native American Heritage Month

National Write a Novel Month:

Books with main characters as writers or books written during this time and published afterwards

Aviation History Month

Main characters who fly planes - don't forget the nonfiction books too!

Adoption Awareness Month

Graphic from: https://www.babygizmo.com/november-is-national-adoption-month/

Main characters who are adopted

Native American Heritage Month

Image from: http://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/
Main Characters who are Native Americans

November Dates:

November 7th is National Book Lovers Day

(create a display of books you recently loved)

November 11th: Veteran's Day

(books with YA characters involved in War)

November 20th Mockingjay Part 2 release date

If You Like Hunger Games, try these books

NaNoWriMo Check In

How's everyone doing? It's a little over than halfway through the month - which means, everyone should be near 25K or a little over.

I'm at 31K and I know that it's going to be a rough writing week for me because I'm crazy busy this week. I wrote a little extra yesterday because of it.

Are you on target?

Are you enjoying it or does it feel like a chore?

Are you needing to find some creative juices (I like dancing around the room like maniac - it helps loosen me up and makes me feel a little silly.)

Are you finding yourself trying to edit your work (Try to avoid this - that's what the new year is for - editing process)

Do you know where you're going in the story and how to get there? If not, maybe a plotting session is in order.

Leave a comment and let me know how it's going for you!

NaNoWriMo: Are you thinking about it?

I LOVE November - not just for the fall flavors, the boots, and the chilly crisp air but also because it's the one time of year that I stick to a writing schedule.

I've done NaNoWriMo for 6 years now and I'll be working on my 7th this year. I love it and here's why:

1. Everyone knows I do it, so I'm not pressured into saying yes for other things this month

2. I write Daily (or almost daily, I do take some days off)

3. The creative juices flow and I get into the heads of my characters

4. I feel accomplished after hitting my word count for the day

5. I talk about writing on twitter with other writers - and it's all encouraging

6. I know the words don't have to be perfect -they just have to be there (This was tripping me up before whenever I started writing, but thanks to the short window, now it doesn't matter. I have all the time in the world to go back and fix them.)

7. I have a plotting dinner date with my husband each year before November at the restaurant of my choice. He listens to me plot and offers suggestions when I get stuck.

So, if you're on the fence, bite the bullet and do it. You won't regret it!

Also, I've written a few handy tips here and here should you still be deciding.

When you join up, don't forget to friend me! (YA Book Nerd of course)

November is NaNoWriMo month

National Write a Novel Month starts today - and for the 4th year, I'll be writing. This year I'm not writing a YA novel, but a cozy mystery. It's a big difference for me, but I'm really excited about it!

Although I'll be crazy busy writing in all my free time, I'll still be posting reviews and whatnot.

Who else is writing?

I'm also YABookNerd at the site - feel free to friend me there. and GOOD LUCK to everyone writing

And so it begins....

Welcome to November...or in other words the Anti-social month
For me (for the past two years and this year), November means churning about a 2000/day word count to reach the goal of 50,000 in one month.
It's HARD, inspiring, exhausting, and probably like running a marathon.

I'm under YABOOKNERD - look me up if you want to be writing buddies. I love the support of writing during this month, it's absolutely amazing.

With writing so much, I tend to read MUCH less. I've already reached my goal for 300 books this year, so it's not terrible. Hopefully I'll have enough to keep posts current.

Are you writing this year?