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em-dash-press · 4 months
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Drafting Your Creative Time: Your Guide to Planning a Year of Creative Writing
2024 is about to start. You’re going to venture into another year of writing incredible stories, but what will that practically look like? I feel more in charge of my creativity by planning rough writing schedules. Here’s how you can do the same without locking yourself into a too-strict calendar that leaves your writing spirit depleted.
Set One Writing Goal
Twelve months is a lot of time, but anyone can handle a single goal. Make the next year easy on yourself by picking one thing you want to accomplish (and let’s not make it “publish my novel” if you’re just starting the manuscript on January 1, given how it takes roughly 18 months of work after you get an agent) (and that can take a few weeks to a few years, depending on your querying experience!). 
Try picking a manageable writing goal like these:
I will write 10 chapters of my novel.
I will make a collection of 5 short stories I write this year.
I will submit a short story to at least 3 contests this year.
I will publish one new work of fanfiction in the next 12 months.
I will write one short story in a new genre.
Publishing a book can be a long-term goal, but your 2024 goal should be easy to break down into manageable steps you can accomplish by yourself. You’ll be more likely to reach the finish line and work toward another goal.
Establish a Stress-Free Writing Schedule
Creativity comes and goes, but your writing will never get done if you don’t form some kind of schedule. Your upcoming year could look something like this:
I’ll write every Wednesday night between 7-7:30 p.m.
I’ll use voice-to-text to get my story-related thoughts on virtual paper for five minutes every morning before school.
I’ll do freestyle writing for five minutes on Mondays and Saturdays to keep my thoughts flowing, even if I don’t find more time to work on my story that week.
Your schedule should be realistic, which means it shouldn’t stress you out. Make it match your weekly and daily routine. When do you naturally feel most energized? When can you carve out ten minutes for your craft? 
Remember, you can always (and should!) adjust this set schedule as time goes on. Your non-creative schedule most likely won’t look the same on January 1 as it will on December 31.
Save a Few Writing Prompts
You might have a few weeks here or there when you’re juggling life’s responsibilities and can’t get to your WIP. It happens to all of us!
When you’re busy, try answering a writing prompt in three sentences or less. Use your phone, a sticky pad, or whatever’s nearby. You never know if it’ll inspire you later when you’re free to write.
In the meantime, you’ll keep using the creative side of your brain so your writing abilities don’t feel so distant.
Check out these prompt apps if getting online isn’t your thing or takes too much time from your busy schedule!
Find a Writing Community
There are so many ways to build a writing community. Start a tumblr about it (guilty as charged) or join a Facebook group. Find an active Reddit thread about your favorite genre or join a Discord server with writers. 
You don’t even need to start talking to others and making friends if it makes you anxious. Read what people are saying to get inspired by everyone. You’ll naturally join in when you get excited about something they’re discussing and keep creative writing at the front of your mind.
Read Lots of Books
I always feel more connected to my writing when I’m actively reading. Artists of any kind need a source of inspiration to keep their creativity flowing. Keep an actively growing To Be Read list with apps like Story Graph (a Goodreads-type app that isn’t owned by Amazon and gives so much more information about your curated reading history!).
Visit your local library if you don’t have the money for new books all the time (who does?). As you get inspired by what you read, you’ll also pick up skills from authors you admire or note things you don’t want to recreate. Study each story’s structure and character development. You’ll return to your WIPs with renewed passion.
Embrace the Scary Editing Stage
Your first draft is your thoughts and dreams poured out on paper. The editing stage is where you refine and re-write your work until it shines. Set aside specific time for editing after completing a first draft of any story. Even if your editing phase doesn’t take very long, working on line edits and developmental edits will make your work so much better.
It’s also a normal form of frustration for writers, but one that happens no matter where your writing goes (on fanfiction websites, short story contests, a literary agent’s desk, etc.).
Schedule Your Rest
Writing might feel like a natural hobby, but your brain and body still need to rest after periods of intense focus/work. Schedule rest periods into your daily or weekly calendar. It’s time to recharge in whatever ways best suit your body, like:
Sitting outside
Walking in a park
Reading
Sitting in a hot bath
Going to the movies
Sleeping in
Keep in mind that sometimes you’ll need more rest than others. Extend some self-compassion by checking in with your physical and mental energy frequently during the next year. If you take time to rest, you’ll be less likely to burn out creatively.
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This next year will be full of growth, challenges, and joys in your writing life. Embrace every second by resting and writing in new ways.
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suseagull04 · 3 months
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24 Reads in 24
Thanks @read-and-write- for the tag!
I have no idea if I'll reach 24 books this year (although I surpassed my goal last year, so you never know!) But if I had to make a list... Some of these are rereads to prep for the next book in the series, and most of these will be coming straight from my Goodreads list.
1. House of Earth and Blood- Sarah J. Maas (reread to prep for #3, currently reading)
2. House of Sky and Breath- Sarah J. Maas (reread to prep for #3)
3. House of Flame and Shadow- Sarah J. Maas New at the end of this month, I'm excited!!!!
4. In a Holidaze- Christina Lauren this one might not happen, I suspect I'll need to be in just the right mood for this.
5. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love- Lex Croucher
6. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail- Ashley Herring Blake
7. Delilah Green Doesn't Care- Ashley Herring Blake
8. Something Wild and Wonderful- Anita Kelly
9. Love & Other Disasters- Anita Kelly
10. Boyfriend Material- Alexis Hall
11. One Last Stop- Casey McQuiston
12. The Charm Offensive- Allison Cochrun
13. Fourth Wing- Rebecca Yarros
14. If the Shoe Fits- Julie Murphy
15. Red Queen- Victoria Aveyard
16. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches- Sangu Mandanma
17. The League of Gentlewomen Witches- India Holton
18. Not the Witch You Wed- April Asher
19. Not Your Ex's Hexes- April Asher
20. One More Day- Emma Heatherington
21. Ayesha at Last- Uzma Jalaluddin
22. Lioness Arising- Lisa Bevere
23. In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day- Mark Batterson (currently reading)
24. This might be cheating, but all of the books on my shelf at home that I haven't read!
Bonus shout-out to all the RWRB fics I want to read!!
No pressure tagging @heybuddy-drabbles @daisymae-12 @myheartalivewrites @zwiazdziarka @inexplicablymine @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @happiness-of-the-pursuit @firenati0n @welcometololaland and anyone else who wants to play!
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vaveyard · 2 years
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sarah j maas debuted only 3 years before you did, and since then has written over 15 books. she's still topping the charts and considered the queen of fantasy, her latest book has almost 150k ratings on goodreads and had a first print run of 750k (in a relatively new genre for her, since its prequel/her adult debut only came out 2 years ago).
we know you were friends and had a fallout. how does it feel to see her be so successful while your career is declining? in general how does it feel to see fellow authors have more success? maybe even authors you don't like?
glass sword seems to have been the decisive factor, the numbers seem to have dropped dramatically after it was published. do you think your publisher put too much pressure on you to write the rq sequels as quickly as possible to ride the wave? i don't have the numbers for the rq series anymore, but various sources say that the first printing for bb was the same as rb, while for maas it's the opposite: her sequels get printed in higher numbers due to the success of the first book. iirc her debut adult novel published 2 years ago had a first printing of 350k (which is huge for a debut in a completely new genre/for a new audience) and the sequel that came out this year had a first printing of 750k. the last book in the tog series had a first print run of over 500k iirc.
lately there's been a lot of talk about "manufactured success" when it comes to authors like alex aster ie the publishing industry finds someone to hype up, then the books come out and are a huge disappointment/can't live up to the hype, and the author's career starts declining. aster is an extreme example, people really went up in arms and her career never really took off (so far) since it was her YA debut (her already published duology is middle-grade and according to her didn't sell well). i'm also hesitant to consider it the publisher's fault, i think tiktok had a much bigger role, the publisher simply jumped on the bandwagon.
anyways, i think that "manufactured success" can be applied to red queen. it was pushed like crazy, but then with each sequel the marketing and public interest started dwindling. with authors like maas we see the opposite, it takes them a bit longer to reach the top, but they do it on their own and their career is much more successful in the long run.
it might be the difference between the industry hyping up a product for easy💲, and the reading community hyping up a book simply because they liked it and want to share their experience with other readers? or is it simply bad marketing?
... but doesn't bad marketing mean that the publisher has lost some interest in the author due to disappointing sales?
sjm's books/new releases/bundles still get publicized like crazy, while recently on tiktok (iirc) you made a video saying that you don't know why but lots of people have never heard of a 5th rq book that came out years ago.
... you really have no idea why they've never heard of it?
Personally, I would feel so embarrassed to speak to another person this way, especially about their job. But you and I clearly have different tolerances for shame.
I do love when fantasy succeeds bc a rising tide raises all our boats. I’m also not obsessed with comparing myself to others, tracking their print runs, or quantity of work? That is so unhealthy. And seems like a waste of my time. But it’s your time to waste, I guess.
What’s the goal here? Pitting women against each other? Trying to put me down? Venting to help yourself? You’re a bit all over the place, and comically so.
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lucysweatslove · 9 months
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Finished NeuroTribes today. Yes, I binge-listened, and I even put it up from 1.5x to 1.75x then 2x and then 2.3x. My brain just needed it faster, idk.
This means I’m 2 books away from 100! If I finish Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (misplaced Kindle and need to find) and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (20% through) by Friday before bed, that would be kinda cool, 100 books in half a year.
Contrary to what people say to do, I try not to set too many goals for recreational things / things I do just for fun. Such as reading. Meeting goals can give a sense of achievement and pride, and goals are particularly helpful in getting me to do things I Don’t Really Want To Do (assuming I set the goal myself; otherwise Demand Avoidance enters the chat). However, goals also start to suck the fun out of things I already want to do / am motivated to do on their own. Even if they’re reachable, I focus too much on the goal instead of the intrinsic enjoyment of said thing. Which is why I try not to have goals for # of books to read in general. Buuuut I think this is a time where a short term goal can actually help.
I wavered on whether or not to give NeuroTribes 3 or 4 stars in Goodreads as I felt it was sold 3.5; ultimately I went with 3. That might be different if I visually read instead of listening to the audiobook, as no matter how slow (or fast) I have audiobooks playing, I don’t retain small details as well as I do while visually reading. General thoughts:
Seemed to portray more pictures of autism as those who are lower masking and have higher support needs.
Did talk about the strengths that autistic people bring to society, used Temple Grandin a lot here (I like her so I’m not mad about it).
The downside was that for most of it, he really presented autism in two ways: more profound autism with lower IQ, or such low social engagement, or such high support needs (often to the point that families find them a burden and families, historically they have been institutionalized, there is significant shock and relief when they can do basic ADLs on their own- which I’m iffy on the presentation), OR genius “savant syndrome” level autism. I would’ve more liked representation from those who do have low support needs and are high maskers but aren’t “savant syndrome” level geniuses at their special interest or anything to that degree. I found it difficult to find “me” in the examples, exactly, or a lot of the autistic people I know, and I had to remind myself much of the time that I am still valid even if my intelligent and hyperlexia doesn’t reach the examples he gave.
In later portions he did talk about it as a spectrum (which he also credits Hans Asperger for initially postulating- but that brings up another bullet point), so it’s not like he totally ignores that there are people like me, or my autistic friends, or whoever out there, but the general feel seems to gloss over us.
Also used the “if you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism” idea to reflect that every autistic person is different
Thankfully portrayed how ABA was founded in a negative light. Not like “ABA is stupid and harmful and nobody should ever do it” but actually explained how using punishment for behavioral modification passed review boards
I can’t remember if it was addressed, but he used “functioning” labels for some of the book which is gross.
Dude had a huge boner for Hans Asperger, but this was also written in a time where the common idea was that he was anti-Nazi and only seemed to favor the “lower support needs” kids (“little professors”) to try to get Nazis to not kill autistic kids. Like “look at how useful these kids are, it would be such a shame to kill them when they have so much use to the state.” When I have more emotional energy, I’d like to do a deeper dive into the guy, but as of right now, my opinion of him is fairly low, and I was overall very annoyed at the level of reverence given to him in the book.
Talked about some controversies regarding vaccines and how autism speaks is more “cure” driven than actually support/resource driven.
Did eventually get into the modern day advocacy movement, how more autistic people are demanding their voices be heard when autism is discussed, and how there is a push from actually autistic people for advocacy groups to focus on resources and support and “normalizing” autism as a different neuro type vs “curing” it like it’s something faulty. Also mentioned that actually autistic people have pushed for “disability first” language instead of person-first, which I appreciated.
Overall an interesting history of how we have historically categorized, tried to explain, or pathologize autism in general, and how as we have come to understand it more, we realize how much more common it is.
He talked a little about how when autistic people are around other autistic people, or when alone, struggles and level of disability tend to decrease. But, I wish he would’ve gone deeper into some of the social issues autistic people face, especially the women who do want to fit in, how NT people can often tell when somebody is autistic even if they don’t have the words for it (they can just tell there is something uniquely different)
I think if I had read this in 2015 when it was published, it would have been a 4 star. Which is why I struggled with the 3 or 4 star rating- I want to judge it based on the information available at the time he was researching and writing, but at the same time, I feel like I can’t condone a book that is so Asperger-positive, and a 4 star review feels like condoning it. And I really did want more of a comprehensive look of multiple presentations, not just the very much struggling autistic people who need high levels of support or the Darwins and Einsteins or Grandins in the world.
I guess what it comes down to… to me it feels like this was written for the neurotypical person, and maybe with a goal to shift their view of autism. Establishing a common ground of the stereotyped picture, but then challenging that view primarily by showing the amazing achievements of autistic people, too. Which, I mean, that’s fine to a degree, and it’s not like he talks about those who present more stereotypical in disrespectful ways exactly (he himself isn’t disrespectful, but he doesn’t shy away from detailing the awful history). I just wish the message was less “we need autistic people in society because of all the good the genius ones can do for us NTs” and more “regardless of their support needs or achievements, autistic people deserve to live in an accepting, accommodating, understanding world.”
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lauraelizabethmarazzi · 3 months
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2023 Book List
Another good reading year for the books! This year I embarked on my first experience with a book club which has been a life long desire of mine! I can confidently say that in participating in it, I've been pushed to be more consistent in my literary pursuits as well as broaden the genres of books I normally gravitate towards.
My goal this year was to read 40 books which I'm happy to report I have surpassed! Last year, I reached for an ambitious 50, in which I sadly fell short. Moving forward, 45 seems to be the sweet spot for my reading habits.
This year, I've decided to split my reviews into genres of books to cover more ground and give a more focused scope.
1: Biographies:
This year I read a wide range of people's stories from the hyped up "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jenette McCurdy to Spare by Prince Harry, to lesser known titles such as Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones and Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney.
Notable reads for me were Untamed by Glennon Doyle, I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy, The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre for there strong writing, concise story, and depth of emotion.
2: Reese's Bookclub Picks
Anyone who knows me, is aware of my deep love of Reese's book club picks. She just never misses on the books she recommends and I've become an avid follower of her for this reason.
The ones I read this year are: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
All of them were great.
3: General Modern Romance
Perhaps one of my favourite genres, I read a great many books in this category.
Honorable mentions for great characters and story are The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary, Beach Read by Emily Henry, Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez, A Wedding in Provence by Kate Fforde, The Wake Up Call by Beth O'Leary, and The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.
4: General Thriller
This is also a fun category for me and the ones that stood out this year for good twists were All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda, The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, and Greenwich Park by Kathrine Faulkner.
5: General Fiction
One of my proudest accomplishments this year was reading Dune by Frank Hubert. Other standouts were Weyward by Emilia Hart and The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall. Both told captivating stories of nuanced people and circumstances.
As always, thanks for following along my reading journey.
You can follow along on Goodreads under the username: Laura Marazzi which can be found here: Laura Marazzi - Abbotsford, BC, Canada (378 books) | Goodreads
Happy reading!
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thelivebookproject · 6 months
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July - September 2023 | Reading Wrap Up
[Jan-March] [April-June]
Autumn is here, and with it, my summery wrap up! And speaking of summer... Here is my recap of Forgotten YA Gems' V Summer Bingo Reading Challenge, complete with fancy card. As usual, I loved it. I love a good literary bingo ;)
Note: Our beloved Forgotten YA Gems group, after several years of joyful activity, has closed its door on the Goodreads group, but is still active in Discord, for those of you who might be interested!
And now, onto the wrap up!
Code: books read in English are in black, books read in Spanish are in red and the book I read in French is in blue.
JULY (8)
Los hombres no son islas. Los clásicos nos ayudan a vivir - Nuccio Ordine, translation into Spanish by Jordi Bayod
A Lady by Midnight (Spindle Cove #3) - Tessa Dare -> 3/5
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -> 5/5
Historias d’antis más de Biscarrues - Ed. Sandra Araguás [Only available in Spanish] -> 3/5
The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies #1) - KJ Charles -> 3.5/5
Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey #1) - Dorothy L. Sayers -> 3/5
A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon - Sarah Hawley -> 3/5
Tintin in America (Tintin #3) - Hergé, translation into English by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper & Michael Turner -> 2.5/5
July was fun. Nuccio Ordine's philosophical analysis of the importance of classical books for the humanisation of our society was perhaps not fun, but it was surprisingly less dry than I expected it to be. Some good romances came along afterwards, as well as a collection of local myths and stories from Spain, a murder mystery, and my first Tintin! I'd had it aroung for years, it was part of a present from many years ago when my English wasn't yet good enough to read it and then I just never got around to it until this summer... Overall, nothing exceedingly remarkable (except for my dearly beloved P&P), but good vibes in the melting heat.
AUGUST (7)
Flight 714 to Sydney (Tintin #22) - Hergé, translation into English by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper & Michael Turner -> 2/5
Cigars of the Pharaoh (Tintin #4) - Hergé, translation into English by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper & Michael Turner -> 3/5
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - Amanda Montell -> 4.5/5
The Blue Lotus (Tintin #5) - Hergé, translation into English by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper & Michael Turner -> 3/5
Broderies - Marjane Satrapi -> 3/5
The Near Witch - Victoria Schwab -> 3.5/5
Murder in the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #9) - Agatha Christie -> 4.5/5
August was good! More Tintin (I have now finished all of the comics I had lying around in my parents' house), an amazing non-fiction book on linguistics by Amanda Montell (she also wrote Wordslut, which I loved, so clearly her writing is quite up my alley and I can't wait for her to publish her third book), a very good spooky story by Victoria Schwab, another autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi that I hadn't read yet, and my first time reading Murder in the Orient Express in English (although the book itself I've read like six times). Can't complain.
SEPTEMBER (3)
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason (Dangerous Damsels #3) - India Holton -> 4/5
Prosa completa - Alejandra Pizarnik -> 1/5
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology #1) - Stephen Fry -> 4/5
Welllllll apparently what I need to sit down and read is horrifying heatwaves because my September reading went down a notch. Alejandra Pizarnik's complete prose was absolute horrific, derailed my entire month, and I'll never get close to her writings ever again, but the other two were very good at least! And I was definitely entertained.
And thus another three months have gone by... I am not particularly close to reaching all of my reading goals, but I am also doing better than I was this time last year so I shall count it as a win. We'll see what the last quarter of the year holds!
A couple of last-minute links:
The Lesbrary is looking for reviewers!
I am asking for Portuguese-written book recs!
How was your summer reading?
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kru-sader · 1 year
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Hello- SOS - This is an emergency...
So my reading goal for this year was to be 56 books (it was supposed to be 52 but some things happened and I accidently created slots for 4 more books in my physical reading journal so it became 56...if it makes sense?)
Now i know it shows that I've already read 54 but actually I've read 53 thoroughly and one is just there because I've completed it but in a skimming way. So I have to read like 3 more to reach my reading goal. And it's already the 23rd of December.
But the biggest issue is that I'm on a trip with my family and while we'll be going back home on Christmas we'll be leaving the next day on another trip (My father is bad at planning but I'll be quiet -the man's trying) and come back after New Year.
And I'm internally panicking cause how am I going to to do this? Do yall (please excuse the AAVE i dont know how else to say this right) think I could finish Shadow and Bone trilogy in three days? Is it engaging enough? Or should I just edit my Reading goal to a number I've already accompalished?
Also if anyone has any books recs that got you engaged right off the bat, my upcoming generations will hear your legends dear friend GIVE ME THE NAMES////!
Also Storygraph is a lifesaver. I can't mend my rocky relationship with Goodreads for the life of me.
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amagurith · 4 months
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tagged for this tag game by @sodacaps (thank you!)
last song you listened to: cosmic love by florence and the machine
last movie you watched: i don't actually watch movies that often but i think the last one i watched was killer klowns from outer space during spooky month
currently watching: not really anything i'm just in limbo waiting for season 3 of good omens
other things you’ve watched this year: some stuff i've watched uhhh... good omens season 2, our flag means death season 1 and 2, heartstopper season 2, the fall of the house of usher, a dutch show called 'de verraders' (the traitors)
currently reading: way too many books to name really, i have a bad habit. some notable ones: none of this is true by lisa jewell, all the white spaces by ally wilkes, tender is the flesh by augustina bazterrica, unmasking autism by devon price, a restless truth by freya marske, i am the seed that grew the tree (a poem for every day of the year) and night of the living queers (an anthology)
currently listening to: music-wise lots of 80's songs and some christmas songs, podcast-wise i'm listening to let's get haunted, the magnus archives, mayfair watchers society, and the white vault
currently working on: not a whole lot. myself, mostly. my mental and physical health. trying to reach my goodreads goal for this year
current obsession: reading, plushies, i guess. idk, the special interest isn't special interesting lately
tagging: @moonmothmama @thefrerin @forsty @mango-parfait @tinyplantinvasion (feel free to do it if you want, if not no pressure!)
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iread-studies · 1 year
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2023 plans
2023 is going to be such an important year in my life!
First of all, academically. If this winter exam session goes well, I'll be set to graduate on October 2023. After that, I plan on taking a break from studying and apply for an internship in a German-speaking country to better my German. But first I need to pass all my exams! And write my dissertation! I'll start working on that in March, I think.
Savings. My aim is to save 5.000€ before I leave for the internship (which will probably be unpaid). First of all, I'm still selling a lot of my stuff on Vinted. In January, I'll also be applying for a grade average-based scholarship and hopefully??? I'll get it??? Then I'll apply for Erasmus Traineeship, which is a scholarship for people wanting to have an internship abroad (check it out if you are an EU uni student!!!). AND I also mean to apply again for a university job in March & to work during the summer/early autumn in order to complete my hours before graduating in October.
Reading. I think I'll try again to achieve my 100 books in one-year goal + try to read all the books on my TBRs. I own 26 physical unread books and there are 70 others on my Goodreads TBR, so if I only read those I'll easily reach both my goals.
Writing. I want to finish writing AND publish on Amazon the whole series of Deck of Cards (that will hopefully bring some more money into my coffers). I'm currently almost done with the first draft of the first short out of 3 so I can definitely make it. I also want to post at least 2 new short P&P fanfictions and write at least the first draft of a long one.
Crafting. I'll mostly knit. I'm currently working on the Buffalo Rose Beanie by KC Knitting. After I'm done with that, I'll take a break to focus on university and writing and then it will be sock fest! I'm very excited to start working on my sock drawer. I've also been requested a white unicorn with a rainbow mane. I need to buy most of the materials but it's going to be a fun project, I'm excited. I'll try to have it finished by summer. After that, I will hopefully feel confident enough to knit my first sweater. I also want to get better at mending and repairing my clothes (looking at you, ripped jeans hidden at the back of my closet).
Travelling. Since I need to save for the Big Trip in the second half of the year (the internship in Germany/Austria/Switzerland) I don't think I'll travel much. But I would really enjoy visiting museums in my city.
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I have really bad adhd so i do a thing where i set my goodreads goal to 1 book more than I've currently read. so suppose I've read 2 books, i set the goal to 3. when I read another book i set the goal to 4. and i keep doing this until the end of the year, but the last time in December I don't update the goal. so i reach the goal exactly at the end of the year and don't feel too guilty.
I did not even know you can change goals. That also sounds SO satisfying.
I usually would always set my goals for 75 books and read a book every few days. And then I will read a book that takes me weeks to finish. Or I will finish a book series and not want to start something new yet. This year i set it to 70 since I keep barely not making 75 even though I could ideally do like 150. I am hoping I can make mine as easily as you do😂
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jeanmoreaux · 2 years
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*✧ — JUNE WRAP UP
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i didn’t really read much the last week bc i was on holiday in london and doing more book shopping than book reading, but i still finished a good number of reads earlier this month. my exams are also *finally* over! not sure how well i did (i have a bad feeling), but we’ll see. now it’s time for some summer reading!! i bought a bunch of books in london i am incredibly excited to get to, and i think i’ll start my reading summer with the new casey mcquiston! ((i snatched myself a signed copy at ‘gay’s the word’. i simply couldn’t resist!))
oh yes, an i reached my reading goal for the year this month!! it’s so crazy to think i have already finished 100+ books this year. but i was in such a reading mood at the beginning of the 2022 that it doesn’t surprise me too much. i am really excited for the second half of this year, since so many of my most anticipated releases are being published over the next couple of month. i hope i’ll still get to get through a good chunk of my physical tbr bc i need to make some space on my shelfs and i have nothing much to unhaul.....
2022 reading goal: 107/100 books
2022 pages goal: 38,884/35,000 pages
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So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens | ★★★1/2☆
Book Lovers by Emily Henry | ★★★★3/4
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes | ★★★☆☆
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson | ★★★★★
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith | ★★★★☆
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid | ★★★★3/4 | review
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys | ★★3/4☆☆ | review
Notes on Camp by Sunsan Sontag | no rating
* Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel | ★★★★★
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop | ★★★★☆
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rereads
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston | ★★★★★
Galatea by Madeline Miller | ★★★★1/2
Solitaire by Alice Oseman | ★★★☆☆
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greywolfheirs · 1 year
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So I was a little disappointed in my year in review on Goodreads this year. I didn't reach my goal and although I read more books than some years, the page count was lower.
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Anyway, then I remembered how much fanfic I read last year so out of curiosity I checked AO3. Keeping in mind I've stopped reading fic less than 3k words and that AO3 pages have 20 fics per page in your history... I have 43 pages for 2022. That's over 800 fics 😳
And when I went to go get actual word counts, at least one fic I read was 141k words. That's nearly 3 novels in 1 fic! So I haven't crunched the numbers officially but on first glance, I've read somewhere between 50 and 200 novels worth of fic this year.
And that makes me feel a lot better about my Goodreads numbers lmao.
Bonus: I might come back and do some actual number crunching later but for now, here's the 12 books I read
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jennamacaroni · 1 year
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I love the books list! #6, 12, 14 please.
6. was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?
you know this already, but i still haven't read 'nona the ninth' yet! i have a lovely copy with the sprayed pages that's just been sitting on my shelf since it came out. i've been putting it off because i need to reread 'harrow' first, but just haven't had the drive yet to pick it up again
12. any books that disappointed you?
i finally read 'the midnight library' by matt haig and thought it kind of basic, like i tend to find most really mainstream universally well-liked novels in that vein
also wasn't a huge fan of 'carrie soto is back' by tjr, it was just like fine
14. what books do you want to finish before the year is over?
i've got like 150 pages left in a 600 page monster about the AIDS crisis, so i'm hoping to finish that, and then i think i have like four more to reach my goodreads goal for the year. probably a few queer contemporary novels if i can poke around and find some good ones
thanks, ca! <3 happy holidays
end of year book ask
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jooniens · 1 year
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October 2022 TBR
Hello reader babes!
Despite what the weather tries to tell me, it is full on fall. My house is full of pumpkin spice scent and my closet has been restocked of my favorite, cozy sweaters.
I'm super excited for October and like any other normal person, I save all of my horror/thriller books for this season. To be honest, after reading the chunky book that was The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson I have felt a bit of reading slump coming on and while I am ahead of my reading goal, I don't want to start falling behind.
No more rambling, let's get into my reading plans this coming month.
Hide by Kiersten White
When I first saw this book I was immediately intrigued because it reminded me of a book that I read as a child called Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn. I love the concept of a spooky, haunted amusement park. I have seen quite a few mixed reviews but when it comes to thriller/horror books I am easily entertained.
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
According to Goodreads, I read this some July 2-3 years ago but I don't think I actually finished it (I didn't realize how to properly shelf things at the time). But now that I have more understanding of fantasy under my belt and more of a grip on V.E. Schwab's writing style I think I will be able to actually enjoy the story this time around.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
I remember when this book first came out and everyone was losing it. Yet, a couple of years later I hardly hear anyone talk about it. I know that with the release of the Shadow and Bone series on Netflix that any of Bardugo's work has taken the back burner while the Grishaverse runs its course on booktok. I don't know much about this book other than it contains a murder mystery (I think). It all seems very dark academia and I love it.
The Troop by Nick Cutter
I've seen this book pop up multiple times in the vlogs that I have seen from the booktubers that I like and honestly their reactions are enough to have me interested in the book. Small confession; One of my biggest fears is parasites. I hate them all and they all creep me out so it makes sense that this book would rightfully terrify me. I'm going to try and brave through it and hopefully I'm not a wimp and it will make it's way onto my October Wrap-Up.
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
I absolutely adore Chloe Gong as a person so it is a mystery as to why I haven't read this yet. I have started this multiple times and each time I have been intrigued especially with the beginning scenes and the idea of a scary monster terrorizing 1920's Shanghai? Wonderful and it sounds so spooky and a perfect autumn read.
While this isn't a concise list of all of the things that I want to read in October I think it really provides a snippet of what my reading mood is for this month. Hopefully this new schedule will work for all of you lovely readers and I'm working on bring you guys more content . Side Note: I'm working on getting a YouTube Channel set up so that I can hopefully reach a wider audience and bring more bookish content into this world.
Anyways, I'll check in with you guys on my Mid-Month reading check in and I hope you are all enjoying your fall reading.
Much Love,
June <3
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Hello! It’s been a while :D sorry about that, I’ve been meaning to check in and see how you are, but I got caught up in a bunch of stuff and haven’t been feeling up to going on tumblr much. Unfortunately, I have no New Years request for you, but I’ll try to think of something special to send in. (Perhaps a mini fic idea, if you’re still up for those?)
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and that the break has been good for you! Can’t wait to read another one of your fics ❤️
heyyyy! i’ve been pretty good, being on break and all, i REALLY needed it lmao. i’ve barely talked to anyone who’s not in my family this whole time. i’ve been reading a TON. my goodreads goal of 36 i set at the beginning of the year may have been a bit ambitious, not really cause i couldn’t do it, but i underestimated how much time i would have to read over the year, and now am cramming the last few books. i have to read 3 and a half books by midnight tomorrow… i am feeling doubtful. how awful would it be to just barely fall short. if i do reach it, it will be my proudest achievement ever. EVER
my friend and i were talking about how i was hoping to reach this goal, and he was talking about the hours i had left, and i was like “yeah but i have to eat and sleep and lame stuff”
and he was jokingly like “no, just read!”
may be taking that a little too seriously, as i’m currently writing this at 5 am. in the morning.
🫶
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bellalaloca · 3 months
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I wish I could add fanfics to my Goodreads. I'm short of 3 books to reach my goal of reading 36 books in 2023, but I have read a few 40,000+ word fanfics this year, so they should count, right? I've also read all 23 volumes of Kimetsu no Yaiba, which took some time, but I don't want to add them because I don't consider comic books literature (not saying they aren't an art form, just that they aren't literature). I'm going to start Dracula tonight and try to have finished it by the end of the year.
It's wild to take a look at the books I've read this year because, out of the 20 books I'd planned to read, I've only read 7: I guess I can't keep to my plans, like always. I can't wait to see what I'm going to read in 2024. I'm going to have way less free time, but hopefully I'll be handling my depression better, so I expect to keep a steady rhythm, at least, which did not occur this year at all.
In case anyone cares/wants to add me as a friend, this is my goodreads account: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16438124-rana
Books I'm planning to read in 2024:
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe (and its sequel)
The All for the Game trilogy
The Dreamer Trilogy (for which I'll probably have to reread the whole The Raven Cycle saga because I don't remember much from it)
The Empire of the Vampire (which is almost 800 pages long, so I'm dreading it)
The Dark Artifices trilogy by Cassandra Clare. I kind of miss her books.
Swimming in the Dark
The song of Achilles
Scythe
Little Women
Wuthering Heights
More Happy than Not
Twilight and Eclipse. Because I haven't reread them this year, so I'm in dire need of these magnum opi.
If we were villains
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