July 17th

I am so excited for Saturday! That's my birthday. I have a countdown clock on my google homepage. For dinner we are going to the Tipsy pig in San Francisco.

Next Friday I will be going to Cape Cod (in Massachusetts) for two weeks so I won't be posting for a long time :(. I will try to post many times before then.

For some reason, my Saturdays are always filled up so I can't post that day. I am going to make my Writing Tip of the Week not on Saturday, but any time on the weekend.

~Malia

Fourth Of July

FIREWORKS AND BBQ!

That's probably the best part of 4th of July!

I don't know if I am going somewhere for Fourth of July but I'll tell you if I go to a cool place. If there is something that you did for FOJ post it in the comments section.

~Malia

Names

My Writing Tip: Try to come up with unique names for your characters.

You need to do that so the reader won't get confused with names. If your characters names are Lavender, Lidia, and Lucille because all the L's make it hard for people to remember who is who.

You also don't want to have Rolf, Ace, and Brett because they are all single syllable names.

Since I am already talking about names, I will stay on the subject.

MY TOP

5

FAVORITE GIRL NAMES

1. Emma
2. Kristen
3. Isabel
4. Juliet
5. Jenny (Jen, Jennifer, Jenna)

I was looking on babynames.com (the place where I find names for my characters in my books) and I found some names I didn't even know were names:

• Kfira
• Xiomara
• Iphigenia
• Veradisia
• Waapalaa

I hope you found this post helpful,

Malia :)