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as always, moderation is key — but you can learn a lot from a bad book. Pacing, structure, character, dialogue... Just make sure you have a chaser, even if it’s something you’ve read a million times.
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like wattpad levels of bad. makes your braincells evaporate bad. the plot makes zero sense bad. hating every single character bad. ranting to yourself abt it in the notes app bad. bonus points if it's NOT a romance but some other genre, those are admittedly harder to come across but so worth it. makes you believe you will eventually get published if someone let that text out of the basement.
Apr 5, 2024
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I think a lot of people can find reading really intimidating because they feel they have to read the literary greats (which can be linguistically inaccessible), and while I believe those have tremendous value I also think they aren’t requirements. If you want to read exclusively romance, or YA fantasy, or murder mysteries, go for it. I think when we put parameters on what should or shouldn’t be read we make it feel like a chore or an assignment. But I think there is infinite value in your airport paperback as long as you are finding true enjoyment. Anyways this is basically a long winded way of saying, read what you want and don’t feel like you aren’t as good of a reader just because you aren’t reading Hemingway.
P.S. this is my professional opinion as a real life librarian
Jan 13, 2025
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sometimes your mind has to expand in a different direction. put down the russian literature. the didion. whatever it is you flash ppl with at the boutique coffee shop. pick up the Ice Planet Barbarians. the colleen hoover. i dare you
Jan 30, 2024
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but just the Cool Ethan scenes
Jan 30, 2024
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every time you wake up with a song in your head you should write down what the song is
Jan 30, 2024
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and then transcribe them into a more organized and legible digital doc later
Jan 29, 2024