I remember doing these regular quarterly planning posts on one of my old blogs, and decided to try and bring them back here! Even though it may be easier to write the results after they have been achieved, sometimes it’s good to sketch out your goals to know what you are looking forward to. Let’s do this in 2026!
First of all, I’ll start with a general year overview and some big picture goals. Here is what I’ve been thinking about recently…
(more…)I didn’t grow up a reader. All we had in the house were some low-brow thriller novels, random Soviet editions of classics, and that one tattered edition of an old medical journal that belonged to my grandfather, which I wholeheartedly consider to be ‘my first book’.
For the longest time, I thought that I simply didn’t like fiction, and would use my measly stipend that I got while studying at the university, to pay for bus fare and visit the annual Book Fair, where I would get only educational literature and maybe a random cookbook. Then, when I got to my twentieth, I still felt severely uneducated and decided on the spot to become an avid reader.
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The other day, I was imagining a whacky scenario in which my submission was rejected. Then I was accused of using AI in my writing, and I was trying to defend myself.
I like to go on such trips inside my head…
Do what you want with this information. I just think that this is an interesting topic for discussion.
(more…)For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been on the lookout for volunteering opportunities. I don’t know if it’s because I didn’t have many friends and spent most of my days bored out of my mind, but staying idle felt terrible. So, over the years, I’ve acquired quite an experience in all sorts of volunteering and contributing. And because I’m a hopeless introvert and don’t have too much money to waste, for most of these, all you need is internet access and two brain cells to rub together.
(more…)Yesterday, I talked to my sister about how it was such a great idea for her to launch a proper website for her book blog. Prior to that, like many Ukrainian book bloggers, she had a community on the messenger app Telegram, but we’ve always been talking about her moving to somewhere more serious.
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