Tag: Blogging
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Advice Before Starting a Book Blog
Blogging is a very satisfying, fun, and potentially profitable venture. For that reason, a lot of people (including myself), jump right into it before really understanding what they should be doing. Basically, diving in head first before actually considering what you’re getting into, and how you’re going to navigate this new passion. As of June…
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Set Quality Standards for Your Blog
How high do you set your own bar? That’s a question you’re going to have to ask yourself whenever it comes to writing for a blog—your blog. Ideally, you should be setting your standards somewhere between what you want to achieve and what is comfortable and practical for yourself. I’m all for quality, but you…
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The Best Device for Blog Writing
To run a blog means that you have to have at least one computer in your possession (as doing it entirely from a phone sounds like some form of divine punishment), but what type of setup should you strive for? And what sort of device suits your needs? In this post, I’m going to use…
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Why It’s Important to Schedule Blog Posts
The sooner you get started on things, the sooner they’ll be done. That’s a saying I recall hearing across my childhood, and when applied to the world of blogging, it essentially means you should always endeavour to work as quickly and as far ahead as you possibly can. Downtime for writers and creators is important,…
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One Year of The Steady Read!
It has been a whole year since I first published my review of Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, which marked the beginning of the website as an actual place for content and reviews to be hosted. However, as I have alluded to in other posts, this website has existed before in differing locations and versions. At…
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Don’t Scrap Your Post Ideas
Over the last year, I have written a lot of unfinished or unpublished posts for this website. However, as of late, I’ve realised that the posts—or their topic(s)—were fairly interesting and have plucked a lot of them out of my drafts and finally put them on the website. One such example is my post bashing…
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Why I Dislike BookTok & Bookstagram
Since 2020, the #booktok and #bookstagram trends have continued to grow. Whilst there are many positives, such as author exposure and a general promotion of the idea of reading, many of these creators/accounts tend to be a lot more shallow than perceived. As a slight warning, this post will probably represent a slight rant on…
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Blogging: A Venture in Constant Improvement
Perhaps this website seems like the epitome of ‘newbie’ to you, but I assure you that it was once a lot more messy, directionless, and unprofessional. In my year or so of blogging, whether it be before the existence of this website or now during it, I have never stopped improving. This site, for better…
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Tips for Writing a Book Review
Offering tips for writing a book review is hard. Advice can vary not only based on the book in question, but the style of review, the depth of analysis, and how much of the book will be directly summarised and mentioned within the review. All of these introduce or invert the dos and do nots…