This is not necessarily something you can just turn on or off, but not worrying about whether what you write about is fascinating to your friends is a good first step to posting more. When I do post, which isn't as often as I would like either, I'm always surprised by what people choose to engage with or be delighted by. Well, except cat behavior: I expect that to get responses. So I just write about what I like, and somebody else generally likes it too.
I know lots of people who want their journals to be more purposeful than that, though, and that's a valid choice.
I cannot get along with audiobooks, but have found ebooks very useful. We are out of room for paper and it's a momentous occasion when I get a paper book nowadays. And reading on my phone is easier on wrists and hands, and also allows more space for a cat.
I'm mostly rereading things these days. I've read new books in a bunch of series I'm engaged with (Seanan McGuire's October Daye and Incryptid series, Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series, and Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo series). The last new book I read was a novella by Katherine Addison set in the same universe but not part of the series proper, so maybe that's not really new. This puts the last new book at, huh, I am not sure. Well, I've read Cameron's second novel that she just turned in, but that's not quite the same thing.
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Date: 2025-04-02 09:31 pm (UTC)This is not necessarily something you can just turn on or off, but not worrying about whether what you write about is fascinating to your friends is a good first step to posting more. When I do post, which isn't as often as I would like either, I'm always surprised by what people choose to engage with or be delighted by. Well, except cat behavior: I expect that to get responses. So I just write about what I like, and somebody else generally likes it too.
I know lots of people who want their journals to be more purposeful than that, though, and that's a valid choice.
I cannot get along with audiobooks, but have found ebooks very useful. We are out of room for paper and it's a momentous occasion when I get a paper book nowadays. And reading on my phone is easier on wrists and hands, and also allows more space for a cat.
I'm mostly rereading things these days. I've read new books in a bunch of series I'm engaged with (Seanan McGuire's October Daye and Incryptid series, Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series, and Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo series). The last new book I read was a novella by Katherine Addison set in the same universe but not part of the series proper, so maybe that's not really new. This puts the last new book at, huh, I am not sure. Well, I've read Cameron's second novel that she just turned in, but that's not quite the same thing.
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