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🆕BLOG POST UP NOW... highlighting why the YA no one talks about is still important. 👇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We all have those series we don’t really talk about, the ones that may not change the course of our lives but that we love all the same. 💖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m talking about the YA that isn’t meant to be “literary” in any way, meaning the writing itself isn’t always the best. ✍️(Obviously, "best" is relative.) I’m talking about the YA that follows all the typical tropes, the kind that doesn’t make any top ten lists, doesn’t have characters that stay in your heart forever. 💁‍♀️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yet through all of that—this is the YA that has to exist. 📚It’s the type we can curl up with, the kind we don’t have to think too hard about, the kind that may not leave the most lasting impression on us in the end… but is still so inherently needed in our lives. 🥰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To read the rest, go to the fantastic link in my bio! 😎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ashadeofvampire #nosafetyinnumbers #bookstagram #books #bookshelf #bookstagrammer #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #author #writer #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #yafiction #youngadultbooks #youngadult #youngadultfiction #youngadultbook #youngadultlit #youngadultbooksgram #youngadultreads #youngadultnovel #youngadultliterature #youngadultseries #hungergames #thehungergames #divergent #writerblog #quotes #quotestoremember

Maybe I should just post a monthly Dickinson poem, because they are all so damn good. 🤨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I particularly love the way she tackled mental illness in her poetry... Even though I have no idea what this particular poem is necessarily about, I think the first line is so powerful when it does come to mental illness. 🗣Sharing our stories is brave, but only if we're ready. Just making it through each day sometimes with a mental illness is brave enough too.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sorry, I'm in a preachy mood. 😬⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Either way... No matter what, she's the best. 💕⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #emilydickinson #poetry #poet #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #poetscommunity #poetryclub #poetofinstagram #poetrylove #poetsofinsta #poetcommunity #bookstagram #books #bookshelf #bookstagrammer #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #author #writer #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #writerblog #quotes #quotestoremember

📚s/o to my forever love. 🙆‍♀️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @barnesandnoble⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #barnesandnoble #bookstagram #books #bookshelf #bookstagrammer #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #author #writer #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #yafiction #youngadultbooks #youngadult #youngadultfiction #youngadultbook #youngadultlit #youngadultbooksgram #youngadultreads #youngadultnovel #youngadultliterature #youngadultseries #hungergames #thehungergames #divergent #writerblog #quotes #quotestoremember

Probably the most famous quote from the Divergent trilogy, and for good reason. 🙇‍♀️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Fitting that it's about one of the most bad-ass females in YA fiction. 😎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #bookstagram #books #bookshelf #bookstagrammer #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #author #writer #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #yafiction #youngadultbooks #youngadult #youngadultfiction #youngadultbook #youngadultlit #youngadultbooksgram #youngadultreads #youngadultnovel #youngadultliterature #youngadultseries #hungergames #thehungergames #divergent #writerblog #quotes #quotestoremember

📸 Today I’m featuring one of my favorite assignments ever… it happened when I was working for @thetab_unc, the @uncchapelhill subset of the national news company, The Tab! ❤️ A bunch of us somehow got press passes to attend a @hillaryclinton campaign rally on campus in 2016, and look who headlined! 😯 All I can remember was how inspired I felt about politics afterward. That man can sure speak. 😂 👇 Here is the text from the article my photos were featured in! “It was quite an eventful Wednesday in Chapel Hill, from the heat to the lines to the POTUS speaking to all of us. President Obama hasn’t visited campus since 2012, but he showed his true Tar Heel pride during his impassioned speech yesterday. We were also joined by Deborah Ross, Roy Cooper and the amazingly talented James Taylor, who played our favorite theme song, ‘Carolina in My Mind.’” 💙 (Ps. The James Taylor performance definitely hit home for me, as my Dad sang that song to me as a baby…) 🥰 . . . #Obama #PresidentObama #photographer #photography #photography📸 #photography📷 #photojournalism #photography_lovers #photojournalist #photojournalismphotos #portraitphotography #portrait #portraits #photo #documentaryphotojournalism #photooftheday #photographyislifee

I grew up with this poem. Didn't we all?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What a perfect image. We'll walk with a walk that's measured and slow... 🚶‍♂️Doesn't get old.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What's your favorite Shel poem? 👇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #poetry #poet #creativewriting #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #poetscommunity #poetryclub #poetofinstagram #poetrylove #poetsofinsta #poetcommunity #bookstagram #books #bookshelf #bookstagrammer #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #author #writer #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #writerblog #quotes #quotestoremember

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