Reading before blogging
Birthday Wish
Over the weekend I celebrated my 24th birthday and of course, I had a few wishes. Now, what would a bibliophile be without wishing for more time to read? That wish was a given.
Rolling Back
In order to make this wish come true, I’ve decided to roll back on blogging over the next two to three weeks. By blogging less, I’ll have more time to read. I can’t bear to take a hiatus but I figured blogging less is a worthy compromise. During that time, expect to only find book reviews and my weekly recaps.
There will not be any new discussion posts or book cover features until the second week of October, or maybe even third.
Read-a-thon
I’m planning a personal read-a-thon, so I want to block off all the time I can to read. I expect the read-a-thon to last from 27th September to 10th October – exactly 14 days.
Blogging Plans
After that I want to get into the scheduling groove and will write two to three weeks worth of blog posts to set up the buffer I need to get this scheduling thing going on my blog. I’ve written about 95% of my blog posts on the day I planned for them to go live and basically hit the “publish” button. The “schedule” button has been fairly foreign to me over the past year. Since I’ve started working though, this method of blogging isn’t sustainable in the long-run, so I need to reassess the way I blog.
Top 10 Discussion Posts
If you’re new to Word Revel or if you missed out on previous posts, you might want to take a look at my past discussion posts. Feel free to comment! Even if those posts might be a little older, I’m more than happy to reply comments and to engage in conversation.
- Not so Solitary: Reading Is Social
- A Basic Guide to Managing TBR Piles
- My Issue with Book Porn
- Breaking Down Book Photography
- Pro-Family, a Sorry Excuse for Banning Books
- Never Without a Book, Always a Book in My Bag
- Where’s My Book Mail?
- How Blogging Has Impacted Me as a Reader
- Fiction is Fiction: On Bookstore Shelving Systems
- Know Your Sources
Happy Belated Birthday! And you’re starting your reading marathon my birthday! :)
Thank you, Amy! In the end I didn’t get to start then but at least I’m in the midst of it now :)
HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO YOUUUUU
Thank you for being such a good friend, and enjoy your birthday! I hope you get to finish all the books that you plan to finish, and I hope you enjoy them all! (Especially Isla hee hee.)
But you write all your posts without scheduling? That is so amazing. I can’t blog during weekdays because of school, and I just am so tired at night so I can’t blog at night even though I want to. But seriously, that is just so cool.
THANK YOU SHANNELLE! :D
I did enjoy my birthday :) And hey, I’m glad I stumbled upon your blog right then when you first moved from Blogspot to WordPress. Made me feel less alone when I started out blogging and I’m happy that we’ve stuck by each other <3
Uhm, yeah... It's a habit that spilled over from my school/uni days. I hardly ever started assignments as soon as I got them. I always did the bulk at the last possible moments. I've submitted more tutorials in uni a minute before the deadline than I could keep track of. It's basically how I've rolled all my life. Heh. But that needs to stop, if I want to keep blogging...
I think that’s a great idea – to set aside time for reading. I think sometimes we bloggers crash and burn because we try too hard to juggle it all at the same time, when in reality they both can be hard to do, especially when you factor in other things like work. I think it’s good that you’re evaluating your blogging and reading and making the changes you think is necessary! I hope you get a lot of reading done during your personal read-a-thon!
I didn’t realize you always wrote up your posts right then and there on your blog! That’s crazy. I always have to schedule posts. Even if it’s just a day or two beforehand, I hate waiting until the last second. It’s rare for me to not have the upcoming week’s posts prepared. Of course, it’s easier when I only have a couple of days to worry about, but still. I definitely think it’s a great thing to get in the habit of doing in case you’re ever too busy to post or things come up. I hope you get all the scheduling you want to get done, done! I really need to work on my scheduling. Like I said, I’m usually at least one week ahead but I definitely would like to have more of a buffer, especially as I’ll be joining the working force at some point!
Yup. I’m so busy at the moment, I can’t keep up with both reading and blogging, so I picked reading for the time being.
Hahaha. It’s a skill I mastered in uni ;) I had a number of modules which required us to submit 3-page essays on a weekly basis. Needless to say, a lot of us wrote them the night before. Alas, my student life is over, so I need to adjust.
Come to think of it, it when I started out blogging, the possibility of scheduling didn’t even occur to me. But over time, I realized that a lot of bloggers schedule their posts, especially those who post at least 3 or 4 times a week or more. Thankfully that is an option. Now I just need to break that habit of writing things at the last possible moment. xD
Happy birthday Jo! I hope you enjoy your break – nothing wrong with taking a few weeks to recharge :) Everyone needs to do that once in a while!
Thank you, Kayla! :) I’m definitely relieved that I’m not trying to juggle blogging together with everything else at the moment. Haha. So yes, I hope I come back recharged :)
Love that you’re taking a bit of a breather so you can focus on reading :)
Ahhh, where to find time to read-that’s the million dollar question lol. My new fall schedule is pretty crazy (one of my kids is doing school at home this year), so I’ve gotten creative with my reading. I always take a book to my kid’s sporting activities, read in the car while my girls are at their piano lesson, read at a coffee shop while the kids are at church for Wednesday night activities etc. It’s not what I normally do, but it works and I’m still averaging two books a week right now, in spit of my new whacky schedule :)
er, that’s ‘spite’ not spit lol!
Averaging two books a week while taking care of kids is quite a feat! Do you work as well or do you stay home to look solely after your kids?
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! ^_^
And good luck with the read-a-thon. I can’t wait until I have some free time to have a personal one as well! Right now, time is scare. I get a little motion sickness on transport (& have a personal aversion to audiobooks) so that cuts down any reading time I could possibly have. Now I’m just reading mostly on weekends, or just a little after dinner to settle the mind!
Thank you, Jess! :)
Awww. I used to have such terrible motion sickness when I was younger, regardless of type of transport. Thankfully it’s better now, so I can at least read in the subway. Buses are still tricky for me though, so I can’t read much either but I’m alright with audiobooks. Either way, it sounds like you still manage to get in time to read, so that’s good!