I’m finally cleaning up my blog site after a long, emotionally draining summer. Looking back on the month of June, I did manage to get in some solid reading and studying of my craft, though the writing took a backseat. Here’s a recap of what I managed to do:

Writing:
– WIP stands at 18,358 words
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Webinars
– Introduction to Screenwriting for Short Films from James Franco on http://www.skillshare.com. (I was unable to see this through after my mom got sick.)
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June reading list:
– The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre (Unfortunately, I only got about 50 pages in. I plan to start rereading it in October.)
– The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver
– Private Berlin by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
– Blessed Are The Dead by Kristi Belcamino
– “The Philosopher Duck by Kara Dalkey (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2014)
– “The Finges Clearing” by Sylvain Jouty (Asimov’s SF, June 2014)
– “Sidewalk at 12:00 P.M.” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s SF, June 2014)

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Books on Writing:
– The Screenwriting Formula by Rob Tobin
– The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing by Evan Marshall
– The Writer’s Digest Guide to Character Traits
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Movies/DVDs watched:
– Lakewood Terrace
– Alex Cross
– Finding Nemo
– Anchorman
– In Cold Blood
– Bloodrayne
– Solomon Kane
– The Ghost Writer (directed by Roman Polanski)
– The Falcon and the Snowman
– Walking Tall (the original with Joe Don Baker)
– Scream and Scream Again
– Catch Me If You Can
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TV series/DVDs of TV series
– The Killing: Season One
– The Last Ship
– Longmire
– 24: Live Another Day
– Fargo
– Last Comic Standing
– Crossbones (I ultimately quit watching this series as it was just uninteresting, despite John Malkovich’s fine acting.)
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Podcasts
– Hollywood Close-up on natalieandwayne.com
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Playlist
– Arcade Fire