Before I Fall

I went on a really intense roller-coaster ride with this book.  At first I hated it; I despised it.  I wanted to slap a few people upside the head and call them mean and vulgar names. (Whoa, I know.  Aleesha, let's not get carried away here.)  But the transformation Samantha goes through is just... Wow.  I highly recommend this book, but just a warning, you need a lot of patience to get through the first half, but I think it's completely worth it.

Top 5 Things on My Bucket List

1. Go to Italy.
2. Start my own publishing company.
3. Write a book.
4. Serve a mission (young or old).
5. Quit Robert's.

Writing Inspiration from Neil Gaiman

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.

There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.