Looking at my blog posts over the last few months I notice my reviews and even meme posts have become very few and far between. The autumn months at work are the most tiring of the year, as the "Christmas season" in retail begins as soon as the kids have gone back to school after the summer holiday. My inclination to read, and to write about what I've been reading, has slowed down. Books have taken me longer than usual to finish, and more often than not I haven't found anything to say about them - not enough to turn into a review, at any rate. I've been wanting to blog, but just haven't found the words.
The less I've been reviewing, the more I feel guilty. And the harder I scour books for
something to write about, the less I actually enjoy reading them. That's not what blogging ought to be about. It's certainly not what reading should be about.
As November dawns, my workload gets heavier and I made the decision to compete in NaNoWriMo - to write a novel in a month, or, in my case, add another 50 000 words to an existing story. Seeing that the blog is likely to suffer even further from neglect, I've made the difficult decision to send it on holiday for a month, to give myself permission
not to update. Knowing my contrary mind, and the creativity of NaNoWriMo procrastination, the chances are I may end up blogging anyway, with mini-updates or short thoughts. But I'm not going to
force myself to do this.
I will still be reading other people's blogs and can be contacted through email at kae.bookworm at gmail dot com or found on Twitter under the name of
KatieWhoCanRead. I'll also be haunting the NaNoWriMo website and forums - finding endless ways of
not writing my novel - where I'm
ScribblerK80. (Fellow NaNo-ers feel free to say hi!)
Have a great November and I'll see you next month!
good luck with nano! hope youre having a blast :)
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