Being in the Atmosphere of Reading: Are You the Only One?

Are you the only one who reads or gets criticized for what you read?

     Uhh... OF COURSE NOT.

           Nope—you're not. I have to admit that all of us readers, bloggers, reviewers, fellows, whatever you call yourselves, go through this and think about am I the only one at some point in our reading lives. 

            For many years, I was the only bookworm that I knew. Strange that sounds, but it's absolutely true. In my old elementary school, no one read anything unless it was mandatory (like The Outsiders in Grade 7 and The Hunger Games in Grade 8) or until TFIOS got popular. That's when girls decided to go out to Chapters and buy the book. -_- I read it when I was in GRADE SEVEN, people! *takes a deep breath in and out* Sometimes I also question people by being unable to classify someone as a "true bookworm."

            People couldn't believe how much I enjoyed reading. I WAS THE ONLY ONE. No, there wasn't a person in my school who I could run to and start gushing books to. And that's why, in some ways, blogging has helped me realize that there's tons of those people out there, all over the place. 

             Have you ever got laughed at? Have you ever had to ditch your friends to read instead? Okay, for a second I realized that I was sounding like I'm going to be giving a speech on bullying. *laughs* Anywho, it sucks to be alone in the atmosphere of reading, or the readosphere, as I call it.

            

            I've been stuck in this place thousands of times, and have gone through and lived thousand of lives. (Look's back to my blog's title.)

              Criticizers suck. They annoy me. LIKE HONESTLY—GO DO WHAT YOU LIKE! Us readers won't make fun of you. *sighs* 

               But as I've made the transition into high school, I've found that there's so many readers here. I've made many friends who I am able to talk "books" with. Proud YA supporters, people! And some of these people who I've met have seen this blog! 

                And another last thing about criticizers: they think that they can start talking to you without "disturbing" you whenever they'd like. NO. NO. If you see that I'm in a good mood and am fairly enjoying the book that I am reading, then please STAY AWAY. You don't understand what kind of mess you just got yourself into, bro.

             This post probably sums up all of my feelings that I have towards criticizers.

Do you ever feel that you get criticized

and made fun of for what you read?

The Magic of Scheduling Blog Posts

This week's topic...

The Magic of Scheduling Blog Posts!

           I have to sadly admit that I used to be someone who was unable to see the magic of scheduling blog posts.

             I actually rarely used to click that "schedule" button at all. What times did I actually click it?

•  during the A-Z challenge where I need to write a post the day before.
•  when I was tired and knew that I wouldn't get to write a post the next day.

                It is! I mean... it was. I seriously don't know how I did it. But I guess it's okay once in a while... especially if you're not caught up with writing your posts and haven't posted in a few days and write the review and then just post it automatically. 

              But I find that it's so much better and easier to just write your posts beforehand! Actually, I'm sitting here, writing this post almost a week and a half earlier than it's scheduled to go on. I write it, and then there's one less thing or idea to worry about. 

                 For me, the best time to go all out and write my posts is when I get the idea/finish reading the book, or whenever I have a bunch of time. 

                 Scheduling blog posts earlier gives me so much time for later, time that I can spend reading, commenting on other people's blogs, or doing something other than rushing and writing a post for that very day or the coming day. And when I go all out and write posts in advance... I feel like I really deserve that pat on the back. ^_^

                   

                  And another thing coming back from my old noob blogger days? I used to write posts/reviews, and post them automatically, one after the other. *face palms self* I was really dumb. How are people supposed to see the reviews that were under that one main post? It's basically impossible because people usually go onto the blog to see the first main post. 

                    I guess I can say I learned a lot in my present blogger days... Calendars, lists, scheduling posts... they're all handy-dandy tools that certainly help me out 24/7. Blogging is not a job, but it's absolutely a commitment that we chose to take when we signed up for this wonderful glorious pleasure of ours... right? 

 Do you enjoy scheduling posts in advance?

How far do you usually schedule and write your posts to?