Hey, you guys! I just wanted to stop by to let you guys know that both Sandra and myself are going to go on a blogging break for a little while to hopefully get our motivation back. If you’ve been reading our blog this past week you might have seen me talk about feeling stuck and not really having the motivation to write posts anymore and when I woke up today and realized that we should have a post going up today, I just felt like it was my tipping point.
I had no interest what so ever to write a new post or to continue working on one I have currently drafted and I realized maybe I really needed to step back from the blog for a week or two (or maybe more, I don’t know yet) so I could get that joy of blogging back. Because I used to really love coming on here to talk to you guys about the books I’ve been loving and just being able to interact with so many blog lovers but that feeling hasn’t been there lately and it sucked.
I have every intention of coming back though. This isn’t a goodbye of any kind. I just need to take a step back and think about how I want things to work out in the future and get my joy back! Hopefully, you guys will stick around and not miss us too much! I can’t wait to come back here! I will still be tweeting a lot and try my best to read you guys’ posts though – it just might not be as often.
Thank you guys for the past 7 months and your ongoing support! I’ve really been appreciating it a lot and I can’t wait to see where this journey takes us next! See you guys soon!
Hey, here’s Sandra!
Before I get into this, I just want to tell you guys that we don’t have the intention of closing or having this blog come to an end, we’ve decided to take this break because both of us have to focus on ourselves for a while. We hope you understand!
Now, let me tell you my part in this. I have been struggling with writing posts lately and getting that motivation out of me, took me a while. I’m sorry if any of that shines through because we love you guys and we don’t want to make you feel like it’s a chore for us and that is why we’re taking this break, so it doesn’t even come to that.
I’m going back to school on Monday and it’s going to be a lot of work and I have to focus on that for a while because I have worked hard these past two years to get to where I am now and it’s important for me to able to put my focus on it. On top of that, my reading hasn’t been going for a while and I love to read but there’s no point in doing something, if your heart isn’t in it, right?
I will be on twitter as well and reading comments you left on scheduled posts because we do still have some of those coming. That we have pre-written these past few weeks and we hope you enjoy them.
We will let you know about when we’re coming back and I hope you will stick around and be here when we’re back! We’re hoping to see you there.
Much love, Swetlana and Sandra ❤
Before I get into today’s post, I wanted to take a quick moment and thank you guys all for your comments on my previous post! I truly appreciated reading your positive feedback and encouraging words. It meant a lot!
If you’ve been following me on Twitter for the past couple of weeks, you might have seen me tweet about feeling uninspired and my lack of motivation to write new content for the blog. This has been going on for too long (in my opinion) and I don’t know how to get myself out of this rut that I seem to be in. I want to write blog posts and share new content with you guys but I just seem to have to force myself to actually sit down and do it.
I feel like this is the easiest and quickest way to mark up any kind of book – it’s also how I got started a few years ago. There was a time when I didn’t do anything to highlight favorite scenes or dialogue but then I very slowly started using tabs/sticky notes (whatever you want to call them) and as time went on I would tab more and more things in my books. Every tab I used was color coordinated within a series to make sure I could flip through favorite scenes easily which sometimes resulted in me having to create cheat sheets because I was using so many different tabs (I am looking at my ACOMAF copy here) and there was no way of me remembering what they all meant – especially down the line.
While I will usually just use highlighters in my books I’ve also started using fineliners more often and it gives my books an entirely different look again! I can also quickly write down a note next to something I marked up this way and don’t have to search for a different pen to do it which obviously makes for a quicker reading experience! I think I first saw people on booktube use these pens in their books and I really loved the look of it, so I had to try it out too! Obviously, you can color coordinate with these pens too which would make finding scenes easier for sure – especially since these pens aren’t as in your face as a highlighter.