Happy new year, reader!
It's been a while. I just logged in to Blogger and found 6 draft blog posts, all abandoned halfway through writing, sitting there waiting to be attended to.
Much like my creative writing work for the latter half of 2011, alas.
Onwards and upwards this year, I say. To that end, I'm going to concentre on books - reading and writing.
Last year I set myself a challenge on Goodreads to read 100 books. I only managed to read 86, which is the most I've read in the last few years but still not what I wanted. I've decided to set myself the same challenge this year, but am going to work harder to actually achieve it.
The lovely Kindle I received for my birthday last year will help me with this (I need never leave the house without at least 13 books on my person again!), and I'm hoping that by writing personal reviews for each book and posting them here I'll inspire myself a bit more too. (I also have to stop abandoning books before finishing them, something I never used to do but was horribly guilty of last year.)
As for the writing... I started a new novel late last year, which for now I shall term The Scottish Novel, and have every intention of working on it this year. It's required a fair bit of research, but I feel ready to get my teeth sunk in. I have no plan of how the plot will actually work, just the settings and the characters.
It looks like I can post my Goodreads reviews directly to this blog, so I'll be doing that from now on, as well as more blogs on my writing and other bits and bobs.
If you have a book recommendation, do let me know! I'm always on the lookout for new material to read, any genre...
It's been a while. I just logged in to Blogger and found 6 draft blog posts, all abandoned halfway through writing, sitting there waiting to be attended to.
Much like my creative writing work for the latter half of 2011, alas.
Onwards and upwards this year, I say. To that end, I'm going to concentre on books - reading and writing.
Last year I set myself a challenge on Goodreads to read 100 books. I only managed to read 86, which is the most I've read in the last few years but still not what I wanted. I've decided to set myself the same challenge this year, but am going to work harder to actually achieve it.
The lovely Kindle I received for my birthday last year will help me with this (I need never leave the house without at least 13 books on my person again!), and I'm hoping that by writing personal reviews for each book and posting them here I'll inspire myself a bit more too. (I also have to stop abandoning books before finishing them, something I never used to do but was horribly guilty of last year.)
As for the writing... I started a new novel late last year, which for now I shall term The Scottish Novel, and have every intention of working on it this year. It's required a fair bit of research, but I feel ready to get my teeth sunk in. I have no plan of how the plot will actually work, just the settings and the characters.
It looks like I can post my Goodreads reviews directly to this blog, so I'll be doing that from now on, as well as more blogs on my writing and other bits and bobs.
If you have a book recommendation, do let me know! I'm always on the lookout for new material to read, any genre...
86 books! If I could read that many then I could buy even more books. Sounds like a plan.
ReplyDeleteI buy too many, so aiming to read a lot justifies my collection :-)
ReplyDeleteThe downside of the kindle is of course that I can buy EVEN MORE and nobody except me and my bank knows...