A few weeks ago, I said that I was going to set a regular schedule for blog posts. I tried it for a few weeks, and I have come to the conclusion that this isn’t working for me.
Yes, last week was a crazy week. I was really sick, and then I was really stressed about imminent bar exam results, and then I passed the bar, which was great, but after all that I just crashed. But even though last week was exceptional, I was thinking that this isn’t working for me before that. Last week just served to underscore the fact that I’m exhausted.
In the last two months, I’ve discovered that working full-time is a lot. I don’t have a lot of time in the evenings and on the weekends, and so I have to set some priorities. Those priorities have to be writing and exercising. As much as I love blogging, the five, six, sometimes seven posts I’ve been doing a week has become too much. It’s turning blogging here into a chore, and that’s the last thing I want.
So I’m going to cut back a little. I’ve decided to stop doing individual, dedicated book reviews for all books I read. For one thing, I can’t keep up with myself. For another, my reviews are all starting to feel the same to me. I will continue to do my monthly reading roundup posts, where I talk about all the books I read this month. I will also do individual book reviews for books that make me think about writing, and I will tie my review of that book in with a post about the specific writing topic.
I will continue to review books on Goodreads, and I’m going to continue my posts about blindness and add regular posts about writing and revising, along with the book review/writing discussion posts. This is going to start with any book I finish after this post. I’m not going to backtrack to talk about books I just finished or didn’t do full reviews of over the summer. I understand this means I won’t get to go into detail for some books I really loved—Ash Princess, A Woman of No Importance, To Kill a Mockingbird The Martian—but the whole point of this is to set boundaries. I’m sorry if this turn of events is disappointing to you, and I hope to one day have the time to come but ack to doing full book reviews of every book I read on this blog, but it’s just not feaseable right now, and I think this solution will help me write more dynamic posts that I’m excited about sharing with you.