Sera Maddox Drake

Hurrah! I'm coming down with an absolutely wicked, miserable cold! Coughing constantly, sinuses draining like rivers, feel yucky. The usual cold symptoms... 
          
          Tomorrow is Flapjack Day at work, you see. 
          
          I praise God for giving me a rotten cold when my workplace has the temerity to stock a PANCAKE BUFFET in the middle of Ramadan. 
          
          (As I understand it, it's Lent now, too, so I'm not the only one who's supposed to be fasting. The timing of this pancake buffet really was terrible).

Contest, needs participants and judges. 
          
          It's romance-specific. Looks like participants can choose to either enter something pre-existing or write to a prompt.
          
          @katiegoesmew @AprilJester
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/388425859-the-inkwell-author-society

Everybody else: "I'm halfway done writing my ONC entries, each and every one of them, and I just LOVE where I took the plot and characters in Chapter 18 of my second ONC entry, in particular... come upvote what I just posted and help me reach my 500th upvote and 15,000th view!"
          
          Me: Uh, I'll write a few more thousand words of _The Adventures of the Hypotenuse_ this weekend, assuming I've got my taxes done by then. Crap. I really need to do my taxes; it's already March...
          
          I'm such an underachiever.

The Readers' Voice Awards are here! Voting is open until the end of March. You do not need to be a contestant to cast a vote.
          
          Two of my books are in the contest. 
          
          To the best of my knowledge, there is no limit on the number of books a person can vote for.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1506088452-the-reader%27s-voice-awards-%E2%AD%90-2025-voting-time

According to Google, the sun officially sets in my area at 6.39. 
          
          Eight minutes. EIGHT. LONG. MINUTES. 
          
          I am too light-headed to focus on anything significant, so I've been tweaking my Wattpad profile banner and making art. Will do Quran study and writing after I actually have calories digesting and I can focus.

I was originally going to shout out this book by @ChelleLynnWriting as payment for The Bookworm Awards, but then I found out she's another indie writer who publishes commercially off Wattpad, which I think deserves a shout-out in itself. We indie writers need to boost each other whenever possible. 
          
          Like vampire novels? Here's an interesting one...
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/375769743-defect-of-servitude-book-1

If you were having a first date at a themed coffee house, would you rather take your partner to Strange Mocha or Sassy Macchiato?

This book is so CUTE
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/356723795-tails-will-wag

Contest! The community that's hosting it looks cool, too.
          
          I got wind of the contest from @MoVenus
          
          https://discord.com/events/1321393054707351596/1345287511718498314

I've crammed down my peanut butter and banana on whole wheat bread sandwich (slow carbs, protein, fibre, super-nourishing ingredients that stick to one's ribs) and taken my apple cider pills to regulate my blood sugar for the next twelve hours. I think I'm going back to sleep now. It's so early...
          
          Ramadan Mubarak, everyone