#yearly reading goal

[very-serious-book-reviews]

Sooooo yeah. I’ve been busy this year

I’m thinking at the end of the year I’ll make a full list of everything I read, and on the off chance anyone wants to hear my thoughts on anything specific, you can ask me there to make posts for some of them! So look forward to that I guess

Of course if you have suggestions or wanna know if I’ve read something, feel free to shoot me an ask! I’m always willing to add more books to my… very sizable TBR 😅

[enchantedsaturn]

yearly reading goal 2024: 3/25

currently reading: dear sylvia, love jane - erin hall

tbr:

the wicked king - holly black (reread)

a darker shade of magic - ve schwab

the queen of nothing - holly black (reread)

a gathering of shadows - ve schwab

beach read - emily henry

a conjuring of light - ve schwab

house of earth and blood - sarah j maas (reread)

conjure women - afia atakora

house of sky and breath - sarah j maas

my heart is a chainsaw - stephen graham jones

house of flame and shadow - sarah j maas

don't fear the reaper - stephan graham jones

geometry of fire - paul warmbier

throne of glass - sarah j maas

crown of midnight - sarah j maas

heir of fire - sarah j maas

the assassins blane - sarah j maas

queen of shadows - sarah j maas

empire of storms - sarah j maas

tower of dawn - sarah j maas

kingdom of ash - sarah j maas

read:

find him where you left him dead - kristin simmons: ‎★☆☆☆☆

house of earth and blood - sarah j maas: ★★★★☆

the cruel prince - holly black: ★★★★★

[jeshaisabookworm]

Goodreads 2023 Reading Challenge: Goal Achieved!

This year I have decided to greatly reduce my reading goal. My reading habits have not been the same since I was in college. It’s only a few years but I have had my slump and things might never go back to the way they were and I had to accept that but something inside me wishes that I would at least be able to read 12 books this year. 1 book a month which seemed rational but difficult at the same…

[the-tarot-witch22]

ATTENTION MY LOVIES! ⚠️

Yearly Goal post!!!

Guys, so I have a goal of 5500$ for november 2024 - december 2025.

Completing this goal will help me a lot!

I will appreciate your help a lot, every tip donation means a lot, need your support by buying readings from me, I offer variety of packages in my paid readings, that you can choose from, and check my feedback for more! I also offer stones and bracelets , you can buy them from me! They are guaranteed original!

Please support me by buying readings, purchasing crystals, bracelets, reblogging and liking this post , I will be so so grateful to you!

Thank you so much for your love, support and time <3!

[friendcrumbs]

oughhhh ur writing is so good!! and ur art!!! do u have any tips on how to improve writings? i feel like my fics ive written are very bland...if u have a process im very curious to hear what it is too!

thank you so much!! ;w; first of all, your fics probably seem bland to you because you were the one who wrote them -- you got used to the plot and prose, and maybe get caught up in the technical aspects of what to tweak/improve, so much so that the 'magic' of reading becomes lost. have a little faith in yoruself! when it comes to general writing advice, it will probably be super unhelpful and something you've heard before but: writing a lot helps. it doesn't have to be good/finished/"publishable," it's about getting words down on a page. i write between 100k and 300k words a year. most of them are utter garbage or ideas that don't go anywhere, but that's kind of the point, to get into the habit of not agonizing over it. the other unhelpful and generic piece of advice i have is to read/watch media criticism -- i know it won't work for everybody, but for me, seeing why something works or doesn't work in a piece of media helps with knowing how to "steal it" and include it in my own writing. if i may be pretentious about my own writing, cicadas leans heavily on everything i had to read on horror/the gothic and weird fiction as a genre -- seeing the elements of why these genres are successful in evoking discomfort/fear and what techinques they use in plain language makes it easier to put in plot points/descriptions that mimic it (for example, disrupted/stretchy/unverifiable time to get a confused, fever-dream atmosphere).

when it comes to the process itself, i highly recommend a beta reader/friend to bounce ideas off of. they don't have to be super familiar with the original media (hi @nullians who bravely soldiered on despite not liking these guys, i owe you my life) -- it's about whether the ideas you have translate onto the page. i would usually ask for a creepiness rating on a scale of 1-10 and whether certain parts were too short/dragged on too long and then adjusted accordingly. the other thing is an outline. my outlines are notoriously shitty, no matter if it's fanfic/ original fiction/non-fiction, so i'm perhaps not to be the best person to be getting advice from on the technical aspects. but to me, it's helpful to have both the crucial plot points and the "mood" i want in a given segment/chapter. it's so i don't forget where i was going with it after a few weeks, so i can see if the bare bones of the story work without being 'pretty', and lastly, to see if the pacing works. it helps to have an 'objective' to hit within a given segment so i don't get off track and spiral into talking about something that's only tangentially related but really, doesn't contribute much to the 'goal' (if you end up with these bits, save them! i have a dumping grounds document where all the rejects go to save me when i'm stuck)

anyways, this got VERY long, but i hope it's at least somewhat helpful!! and again, thank you so much, it's so nice to hear ;w;

[alackofghosts]

let us take this joy to go

[kittyp333]

the romance of cannibalism

~scenes from bones and all

[saskia-mae]

monthly reset

hi everyone! since it’s the end of the month, i thought i’d tell you what i do at the end of every month, to prepare for the new month :)

brain dump tasks for the month ahead

this includes any events I have, such as a party, someone's birthday, important deadlines or exam dates, as well as the revision I want to get done in the month.

organise my calendar

i use multiple calendars to keep myself organised. first, i use ical and a physical calendar for birthdays and parties/events. then I use google calendar to time block my week out, adding in when I'm at school, my morning routine, study sessions, workout sessions and my free time. to organise my revision, I have a separate monthly study planner from emmastudies.com that I fill out. i have this above my desk on my corkboard, which helps me to know what revision I have to do on any given day.

set goals

to do this i look at my yearly goals (which i have on my yearly notion page), and then i decide how my yearly goal can be broken down into an achievable yet challenging monthly goal. for example, one of my yearly goals this year is to learn german, so one of my recurring monthly goals is to do german on duolingo daily. as I'm doing my a levels this year, my german study isn't too intensive, but once I've sat my exams in the summer I'll increase how much I study german.

tidy my environment

to bring in the new month it's super important to have a clean and tidy environment. for me, this means clearing any clutter off my desk, vacuuming my bedroom, cleaning my windows, windowsill, mirror and makeup brushes. i also like to tidy my clothes shelves and make sure everything is folded nicely, as well as my underwear and socks in my drawers. don't forget to change your bedsheets as well!

self-care

my favourite thing to do is have an everything shower and do my skincare routine, so I can get into my nice fresh bed all clean :) I also love to go to bed a little bit earlier than I usually do, and read for a little while before going to sleep.

[antique-symbolism]

10 Books to Read in 2023!

This year’s reading goal is to read at least one more book than last year (10+), and for at least 25% of my reads to be indie or self-published! 

For indie/self-pub reads here, I have:

@ashen-crest‘s A Rival Most Vial, which I’ve been so psyched for since I started following

@abalonetea‘s Youth Sunken and @drchucktingle’s Camp Damascus which will be a deviation from my normal genre habits in that they’re both horror

@thebibliosphere’s Hunger Pangs which I read some of in 2021 and loved, but didn’t get the chance to finish

and finally I’m very excited to have the honour of beta reading Cavernous for @kjscottwrites after following the project with bated breath for a good chunk of 2022! I didn’t know if you had a cover yet, KJ, so I hope you don’t mind the blank box.

When I did this sort of post last year I believe it was a tag game, so I’d like to tag any/all the authors I tagged above as well as @thelonelyrainbowenby @cloudbooks @wardoffthenight to post some books from your 2023 TBR! I’d love it if any of my other followers wanted to do this and tag me to see, too!

[taylortruther]

2023 reading list update

three women by lisa taddeo

before she knew him by peter swanson

ghost lover by lisa taddeo

last girl ghosted by lisa unger

radical candor by kim scott (for work)

nobody is talking about this by patricia lockwood

severance by ling ma

animal by lisa taddeo

sorrow and bliss by meg mason

daddy by emma cline

romantic comedy by curtis sittenfeld

the golden compass by philip pullman

the subtle knife by philip pullman

the amber spyglass by philip pullman

little fires everywhere by celeste ng

[fruitdaze]

self-analysis time but i've realized that part of the reason why i struggle so much with watching shows is that it doesn't feel "productive" to me the same way that writing and reading do, even though they're all things i enjoy. i have decided to fight against this by catching up with as many dramas as i can in the next 2 months

[fearlessplatinums]

i just wasted brain cells reading the summer i turned pretty series

[daughterofhecata]

Stupid alien virus hoax, here I come!

[wiltking]

wrote over 5 thousand words today. what the fuck

[mothpdf]

I am normal.

[its-tortle]

june 4th and i've read 25 novels!!!