Tag: book

I stand before this blog holding the budding ideas I want to undertake, and with enough impostor syndrome and inertia that I don’t know how to cure

Keywords: Reflecting On Water , literary doubts , working week , Writing

Oftentimes I am paralysed by the ways in which we carry on, more often than not defeating, and writing around it becomes difficult for me. (Although I have a lot to say.) I’m feeling doubtful that literature will be able to do justice to the narrative of our humanity right now, both fractured and flawless, but there is nothing else I know how to do well with my time.

https://amarllyis.in/2024/04/13/time-after-time

I want to see if I can turn a story I’ve had a version of for ten years into a neat little book on store shelves

Keywords: author , history , manuscript , method , new-year , publishing , retrospective , revisions

I’m coming up on nearly a year since I seriously set out to see if I could make something out of writing. It hasn’t been smooth sailing all the way, and I’d be lying to say 2021 went like I had hoped … but it’s been enriching all the same, and I do have a modest sense of optimism going into 2022.

https://jehonakercom.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/into-the-unknown

I like to break things down into mind-maps, tables, diagrams… anything that presents information better than chunks of text

Keywords: general

I highlight, underline, and scribble all over my books. It helps me note down important quotes, concepts and ideas to question / research further later. And in selecting what to highlight and what not to, I’m building a mental map of what I want my summary to look like.

https://lifeworthexamining.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/book-summarising

I want the pure experience of diving into the unknown and discovering everything for myself

Keywords: books , writing , book reviews

So, from now on there will be no more posts of book reviews. Now, I’ll still do a recap of what I’ve read (maybe monthly or quarterly instead of annually, I haven’t decided yet) and if a book greatly inspires me I may devote a post to it, but it’s likely it’ll be more of how it made me feel, what it made me think, and how it changed me.

https://wordsand.blog/2021/01/20/no-more-book-reviews-sort-of

I want that Happily Ever After

Keywords: love , romance , writing , believeing in love , escaping reality with romance , escapism through books , happily ever after , lightening up the dark world of 2020 , romance lover , romantic heroes and heroines , writing romance

I want to sigh happily when I get to the end, relieved that the characters whose journey I have followed through thick and thin, through dangers and adventures, through heartbreak and grief, finally reach safe harbour. With each other. As I write this, hubby is leaning over my shoulder, reading. Right now, his arms tighten round me, his breath warm on my cheek and he whispers. “Like us.” Yes. Like us. Am I lucky or am I lucky?

Escaping it all – of an addiction to romance and Happily Ever After – Anna Belfrage

I want to be a “Whole Hearted” person

Keywords: forgiveness , Happiness , joy , mindfulness , shame

These are people who get real about things, they accept vulnerability, they admit their mistakes, they practice mindfulness, have the difficult conversations that need to happen and recognize that we, meaning each and everyone of us, are dealing with the same things. They recognize that we have shared human experiences with a variety of issues and that we are not alone in our madness… in fact… our madness is quite common.

https://sorsha60.wordpress.com/2020/11/27/dealing-with-shame