What's the Word? Weekend #41

It's time for What's the Word? Weekend number forty-one!  :)



Hey guys! I know it's been FOREVER (almost a year!!!) since I last did this, but I REALLY want to get back into it! Long story short, I was EXTREMELY busy during my senior year of college, so I needed to focus on that. And once 2014 came around, I promised my mom I wouldn't work on my stories until after I graduated. So I put my writing on the back burner, focused on my schoolwork, and now I'm a COLLEGE GRADUATE!!! :D :D :D :D :D


The Bad News: 
None right now :)




The Good News: 
I finished editing my most recent novel, (codename) Rhyme and Reason!!!!!

The word count is: 49,863 words

I'm really excited about this one! I finished editing it a couple hours ago actually, and it feels AMAZING. I've never been so into a story as I am this one. Seriously. Pre- and post- focusing on school, I spent months outlining the perfect plot for this book, spent over a month actually writing the book (which for me is a long time because my previous five books took me just a month to write) and over a month to edit it.

I think I finally found my niche with this story because it's an upper middle grade (which I think/hope I've got a good voice for) and it's a paranormal (which I know are a difficult sell right now, but I think/hope my premise is unique enough).

I also sent out my first three query letters on Thursday, and a few hours later I got a full request! So hopefully that's a good sign for this book!!!! My fingers and toes are crossed!!!!!!!!

In other news:

I wasn't able to do WWW during the school year, so to catch you up about taekwondo (since I talked about it in my previous posts all the time), my senior year of tkd was probably my best yet--I made so many great friends, I ended my college career as a senior blue belt, I got a silver medal at the nationals tournament in CA, I was elected most improved by my teammates, AND my coach already said that he wants me to compete for our school at nationals again next year!!! :D :D :D

Well, that's all for this weekend folks! Until next time! :)

X <3 O
This is my year, this is my time, this is my now.


P.S. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!!!!!!

Happy Second Blogoversary J.A.Y.A.!

Hey everyone!!!!

Well, it's that time of year again! J.A.Y.A.! is officially two years old today!!!!


YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! 
My baby is two years old!!!!!!! ;)




So this is going to be the shortest, lamest, and least enthusiastic blogoversary celebration ever, but I just wanted to come on and post so that you guys know that I'm still alive and I didn't stop writing J.A.Y.A.! posts forever. I've been super busy with school (senior year ... ugh) and trying to write when I have free time (which is almost never).

So in the two years that Journey of an Aspiring Young Author has been in existence, it has 418 Followers, has gotten 34,834 Pageviews, and has 143 posts on it (144 counting this one). While I'm shy of the goals that I set for myself during the last blogoversary (except for the one about writing another book--yay), I was kind of expecting it since I've gone so many months without being on. While I definitely want to meet those goals for next year's blogoversary celebration, I don't want to hold myself to anything until I know I can really get back into the swing of posting every week (and it honestly looks like that's not going to happen until I graduate college).


So Happy Birthday, J.A.Y.A.! I love you!!!!!!


Hopefully I can get my life together so that I can post more interesting and longer stuff for you guys to read.


X <3 O


Oh, and good luck to any NaNoWriMo participants out there! Hopefully I'll be able to join in on the fun sometime in the future!