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MUSINGS ON LIFE AND WRITING WITH SARAH BUCKLEITNER

Month: November 2015

On Finding the Bright Spots

Posted on November 28, 2015August 15, 2018 by sbuckleit

I'm going to start off with my usual spiel: I'm not a psychologist, or a life-coach, or any other such thing. I'm just a 24 year old girl who thinks a lot and writes to connect with other people. Everything below is my humble opinion, and it is not meant to tell you how to … Continue reading On Finding the Bright Spots →

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Just a boy and his bunny ❤️. For some reason, people have always associated Hollis with rabbits—when he was born, almost every present we were given for him was bunny related, including his now-favorite, Lullaby the bunny. I think it’s a perfect fit for his personality: I had a rabbit named Bundles when I was growing up, and she was feisty and sweet and funny, just like Hollis! 🐰 Got a new phone (after a whole debacle where I lost my old one for a week, gave it up for gone, and then found it shortly after ordering a new one 😬). In honor of its much nicer camera, here’s a happy little reel celebrating my favorite three legged dog #rescuedogsofinstagram #threeleggeddog So close to finishing this sweater! It’s been the slowest, fastest sweater I’ve ever knit—I’ve taken forever to do it, but because it’s knit on big needles, when I do spend time on it, it comes together lickety split. I keep trying to remind myself that life is full of seasons, and right now I’m in a kids and work and writing season—not necessarily a knitting season. But boy oh boy, the joy I’ll feel when I’m finally in a knitting season again 🎇👵🏻 #ranunculussweater #handknitting #alpacasweater #knittersofinstagram Just popping in with this wind blown photo of Wren to give a quick update on the book! It’s been really exciting (and nerve wracking) having it in the hands of beta readers. Mostly, I was nervous about receiving negative feedback—it’s not a small thing to have strangers (and some loved ones) read something as intimate as a novel you wrote as a ray of hope during a dark time. But today I actually received my first criticism, and it was kind of *exciting.* While we’re taking all the feedback (both positive and negative) with a grain of salt, it is pretty neat to have specific areas that we can take a second look at. And I’m deeply grateful that someone who didn’t like my book (or even the genre) took the time out of their week to read it and let us know what they think! Of course, I’m extremely grateful for the folks who’ve loved it too, but it will take both honest criticism and praise to help my little book be the best version of itself it can be 💫 #betareaders  #cozyfantasy #cozyfantasyromance #yanovels #bookpublishing #writersofinstagram Hi! It’s your aspiring author friend here 👋. We’re looking for a few more beta readers for Little Birds and Other Small Magic! Beta readers get a free digital copy in exchange for providing us with their thoughts! Interested? Email info@skysharkpub.com with the subject line Little Birds! #cozyfantasy #yanovel #betareaders #advancereaderscopy #publishing Today is a super exciting day for Little Birds! We officially finished development ✨🎉💃! I just sent the final chapter documents off to my publisher, and she’s going to turn them into an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) by tonight. An ARC is essentially an e-book that you use to get feedback from readers before the story goes through a professional copy editor. I’m super excited to finally see this story in book form—it’s hard to believe that we’re already at this stage! Homeward bound after a productive few days away, with an almost finished sweater on my lap. It was a good and hard trip—hard to be away from my little ones, but good because it forced me to step outside my comfort zone after several cozy years of not being forced out of it often. Plus, it was fun working together in real life with a team of people that I’ve worked closely with virtually for the last year, and hearing all of their thoughts on how we can help make the world a little more resilient. Anyway, those are my Wednesday evening train thoughts 🚂. I’ll have SO much catchup to do on book stuff when I get home—wish me luck! Going on day 28 of my new year’s resolution to walk a dog (almost) every day. It’s the happiest resolution I’ve ever made, I think maybe because I got to it by thinking about what I wanted my life to be like in ten years and working backward to what I was missing now. I hope I always have walks in beautiful places with a canine buddy (swipe for a sampling of all the accountability photos I sent to my sister). The kids are in bed. I’ve got a sweet sleepy pup curled up next to me, and the beginnings of a mitten on my needles. I’m very excited for these mittens—I currently only have ugly, bulky mittens that I’ve had since high school, and these wool ones will be pretty *and* warm. But I’m trying not to think too hard about what they will be, and how excited I am to wear them, because I know that the more I think about it, the more difficult each stitch will become, until I can hardly bring myself to work on them at all. It’s a lesson I’ve learned from writing books—you have to take it word by word. Or stitch by stitch. (To be completely real though, the sweet, sleepy dog promptly got up and cast me a disdainful look after I took this photo. She doesn’t believe in snuggling. Or social media).

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