Things I Sacrifice Sleep For...

Triumph
Truth Prevails
When Hope Prevails

You should all know that means writing. My kids are too old to blame my few hours of sleep on them.

A good friend and I recently made a pact that we are GOING TO FINISH our WIP's (works-in-progress) in 6 weeks... that was about a week ago, so we have 5 weeks left. Hold me to it, please!

I have lost a ton of sleep over my WIP the last 2 weeks, but last night, I lost sleep over this:

"What is this?" you say. This is Spine Poetry. I found the contest on LibraryThing.com. So I thought I'd try it. Here are the rest of what I've been playing with. Tell me what you think. I can enter as many times as I'd like, but I want to put in the best entries that I can. I started to get really frustrated. I really wanted to go to the library to check out books so I'd have more to work with, but... I decided to do the best I could with my own library. Not all of them have titles, any ideas?

Adam

The Outlander, The Stranger

The Awakening East of Eden

Bitterblue, blood red road

A great and terrible beauty

Clockwork Angel, Rebel Angels

Wings forever catching fire
A great and terrible beauty

What Shadows Hide
The dark and hallow places

eclipse

a great and terrible beauty

Bitterblue New Moon

Illusions of

The Immortal Realm

Clockwork Angel

Wing Forever Catching Fire

Stardust

The Immortal Realm:

Illusions Shiver

Spells Linger

Forever Bitterblue

I can't decide which of these I like better for the title LUST:

Devil's Kiss Catching Fire
Cinder Forever
Blood Red Road

Devil's Kiss Catching Fire
Cinder Forever
The Dark and Hallow Places

I don't know if this

next one counts

as I added in a lot of

extra words.

The Library

The Secret Garden, a Wrinkle in Time

Where Frog and Toad Together with

Bears on Wheels and Danny and the Dinosaur

And Matilda, Pollyanna and Peter Pan

Tell Me the Secrets

Of the Velveteen Rabbit, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice

And the Giving Tree and the Crippled Lamb

Of the Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Charlotte's Web.

They Call it Courage

And leave me with The Moral Compass.

I can't decide

which of these two

I like better.

Ordinary Men

Battle Read

American Heroes

Ordinary Men

Battle Ready

The Story of World War II

American Heroes

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