emeraldstag: Sailor Moon's Usagi & Luna (crazy)
You ever have that time when you're reading a great, long, story and then as you're heading into the conclusion something happens to the love interest of the main character and all you can do is worry if they're still alive and start skimming through the climactic battle just to find out? It sort of put a damper on the story I was reading for me tbh but I do tend to put more of an emphasis on stories that focus on the relationship aspects of the characters rather than the action.
 
I do make exceptions from time to time if a story has really grabbed me, but I've also dropped reading stories where it seemed to go on forever (which I've come across through fanfic more often than I expected) because I only have so much time to read and I'm sorry but I can't give my limited time to a never-ending story that is longer than most novels by many multiples.
emeraldstag: Sailor Moon's Usagi & Luna (harry potter)
 This month I'm trying to take advantage of my free time by assigning myself some fun entertainment challenges to accomplish on a daily basis so I don't just waste away that time with just watching reruns or zoning out on tumblr/fanfic. Two challenges in my head, both created from the fact that I feel like I've fallen behind in both of these areas and I miss doing them. Pushing myself to meet goals is usually when I'm at my most productive, so I'll be interested to see if that works for funsies stuff too.

The first is a reading challenge. You see, I feel like my book reading time has suffered in recent years in favor of online material with the ease of access from my phone. Between articles, fan works & social media updates I probably read more words now on a daily basis than ever before. Yet books are not really a part of it.
 
But it would be nice to add more published work to my reading list that isn’t limited to comic panels. So starting this month I am challenging myself to reading at least one chapter a day from one of the many unread books I own in the hopes that like many of the other lifestyle changes I’ve made over the last year it will eventually become a habit. I also feel like because of my fanfic reading tendencies, I've been reading a lot of badly written stuff that it might be good to mix in some at least smartly edited material to remind me of good writing habits as well lol.

And the other challenge I’m giving myself this month is to jump back into anime after a really long time being out of it for the most part. I was a pretty enthusiastic budding otaku right out of high school and made some poor buying decisions during that time (stupid vol 1 + art box deals) but that’s neither here or there.
 
Anyway being on tumblr has kept anime on my periphery for awhile now, reminding me that I once was more familiar with the properties and i finally decided to go ahead and subject myself to the deluge once again starting with the last year i remember watching shows from. That is probably crazy to start with such a backlog but I’m weird like that sometimes when it comes to being a completist.
 
So the plan is to try one show a day time permitting, at least 3 episodes which is about 1 hour and make my way through the long list and see what i missed and what is worth watching. I’ll either blog on my tumblr or tweet my thoughts. Probably at the end of the week or month I'll throw up an overview here on DW/LJ. Hopefully this will be fun and something I can keep up on.
emeraldstag: Sailor Moon's Usagi & Luna (harry potter)
 Yes, I am still alive. And I decided when it hit July that I'd go ahead and reread the entire Harry Potter series for the rest of the summer. Seems only appropriate with the final movie releasing this month, and it being four years since I read Deathly Hallows and the last time I had reread the entire series.

It's taking me a little longer to read than I used to, but that's because I've found it more entertaining for myself to read aloud and do voices for the characters and that's plenty slower than silently reading.  I'm almost done with Sorcerer's Stone and hope to be at least done with Prisoner of Azkaban by the time Deathly Hallows 2 comes out next week.

I'm really excited with all the Potterness this summer feels so expect more ahead. I have even been toying with doing short videos after I finish each book to talk about what parts I had forgot about that were unique to the book and something like that.
emeraldstag: Sailor Moon's Usagi & Luna (Default)
I've noticed lately that it has becoming more difficult for me to find fanfics that I'm interested in reading.  It's most likely because I'm pretty slow to jump fullboard onto fandoms these days since I'm already so invested in several and those all have been around for awhile and don't have the same excited activity that new fandoms have where fic and other creations are made on a frequent basis.

The good news with this is that it only encourages me to write more to create stories I'm interested in, and the newer good part is now I'm starting to open back up to reading actual published fiction that isn't just Harry Potter or Star Wars themed (the only books I've read for fun these past few years).

I have the first few volumes of the Sword of Truth series that I'd like to get into now that Legend of the Seeker is gone, and I have the other volumes of the His Dark Materials series since the movie adaptations were stupidly stopped after Golden Compass.  And that's not even mentioning the A Song of Ice and Fire series that I'd like to start before the HBO series starts up next year.

Basically, more time to read books and more time to write. Yay.

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