Hi! This feels slightly strange, but it's been such a fun experience to make this site. I've never done anything like this before, other than a little bit of coding back in school, so this is very exciting. I always need a little project to work on, something to get absorbed into and obsess over, and this has done an excellent job of keeping me occupied so far. The weather is entirely too warm at the moment and I am suffering! But, because it's summer, I have very little to do, and that means more time can be spent reading and writing and coding (learning how to code, as you can probably tell, I have no clue what I'm doing). I'm attempting to be productive-ish most days, I don't want everything to blend into one big blur, when you don't know what day it is, or what you've been doing for the last four hours, or 3 weeks. I've always meant to start a blog and make a website, I had one once when I was very small, but it has been a loongggg time and I have changed entirely. Writing has always been what I'm most passionate about, whether it's writing music, or poetry, or books, or articles, so this gives me a fun outlet to share what I write and what I'm working on. Will anyone ever look at it? no! But who cares. The whole point of this thing is to do it for you not for an audience. Make something for the love of making it, not because you want other people to like it. These, as a heads up, are probably going to be very ramble-y and not structured, so be warned.
Work on my novel at the moment has been okay, though kind of slow. Sometimes the motivation wavers just a touch, but it's enough to put you off writing for a couple days. But its something you fall in and out with, it's all part of the process I suppose. I've got a bit of a "murder wall" style thing going on in my room, with lines connecting the plot points and sticky notes with character information and ideas about backgrounds and settings, you know, like a crazy person. It's been super fun to be immersed in it all, and now I have the freedom to properly indulge in it.
I recently finished reading Northanger Abbey, which was given to me by my old english teacher, and I thought it was pretty good! I haven't read much Austen, only Pride and Prejudice and snippets of Sense and Sensibility, but I really enjoyed it, and can't wait to read more of her works. I started slowly making my way through Crime and Punishment the other day, which I think will be hard, but there's no time like the present, and I know if I don't commit now then I will never read it. I also bought a copy of the Complete Poems of Emily Bronte (because I love her), and so I've been studying some poems from that, which has been super interesting and helpful thematically for my novel.