A Writer's Journey

Hi everyone! Welcome on my blog. I am a 16 year old girl from Europe. Every day there will be a post with a poem I have written, a writing prompt and a quote. Feel free to take a look around. I love writing, languages, poetry, music, literature and studying. There will be posts about that too.  Check out my quote blog too: Quotesbyawritersjourney                                                          -A Writers journey

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Dark academia things you should NOT strive for:

Caffeine addictions. this shit ain’t cute, learn better ways to manage you sleep and energy.

Workaholic culture, working hard is great but not in exsess

Romanticizing mental illness, you are just as valuable and talented healthy, happy. don’t convince yourself otherwise

Elitism, you aren’t better than other ppl for being more educated if your not polite.

Eurocentric: Dark. Academia. is. Not. Just. For .White. Skinny. People. In. Blazers.

Neurotypical lifestyle and studying patterns. If you can’t do things the way neurotypicals do then don’t force yourself. I tried to force myself to tale notes and memorise things the way is been taught in high school rather than what was best for me.

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3/20/2020  🌷 the lockdown got me feeling lonely so i decided to study with my tortoise roommate

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20th October 2020: Still editing.

listening to: can’t sleep - loco feat. heize

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Monday morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNN91HrhVYA

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4.14.17 What else would I be doing on a sunny day? ✨☀️

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100 days of productivity | 17/100

completed today

- discussion post that should’ve been an essay

- art history lecture

- asl lectures

- finished 2 care packages I’m sending out to friends tomorrow !

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My desk today

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gallery wall 📜 🖋 🏛

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recent instagram posts from me | feel free to follow my instagram account : @thomreads

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history and books .... # books # library # peace # dark academia

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Extremely gorgeous! Hope your book was good

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Should you read “The Great Gatsby?”

This fascinating book, “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of a kind.  You must read it, especially when you are interested in classic historical fiction books. 

The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway. He tells us the story of the wealthy, fabulous, loyal Jay Gatsby. The story starts with Nick introducing himself as the author of the book. Nick is different than all of his neighbours. Eventually he leaves his house to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. The story has a twist when Nick has met Gatsby and when he decides to introduce him to Daisy, on Gatsby’s request. Gatsby and Daisy are lovers from before Gatsby had to fight in the First World War.

The thing I personally loved about the book was that “The Great Gatsby” is written in an I-perspective. The story is narrated through Nick. He only describes his own feelings and what others tell him. This had a huge impact on the book as you never exactly knew what others were feeling.

Another thing that I liked was the description. Fitzgerald described everything flawlessly so that you could get a clear view of the setting, characters and the time. This was amazing as it made me understand the story even better and get to know the characters like they are friends of mine.

“The Great Gatsby” is an one of its kind. The story telling is filled with emotion, heartbreak and happiness. I would highly recommend this book to every adult and teenager who loves to read a classic.  

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My Writing Process

Hi everyone!

When I write a story, I follow a few main steps; these steps make up my writing process.

Prewriting

Creating a draft

Revising my draft

Editing

Publish it

Step 1: prewriting. When I am in this part of the process, I am brainstorming all kinds of ideas. I think about what I want my story to be about and after that I sit down again to create a plan. 

Step 2: Creating a draft. 

Once I have created a draft, in which I write down all my ideas in chronological order, I start writing a rough draft, also known as a first version. 

Step 3: Revising my draft. 

Revising my draft is not editing. I do make changes  by rearanging words, scenes and looking at peer feedback from others.

Step 4: Editing.

This step is my personal favourite. It is where I read my whole draft and scrap sentences, make changes, sometimes even rewrite a whole scene. Most of the time, there is about one week time between this step and step three. This way I can look at it with a fresh mind and make sure it is interesting enough.

Step 5: Publishing.

When I am at this step, I rewrite my entire story using my first and second draft. While I am doing that, I am brainstorming in my mind where I am going to publish my story. This can be here, at my blog, at Wordpad, my personal NaNoWriMo account or not at all

After I have followed all these steps I am done with my story. I put one copy of it in my binder where I keep all my stories. I like to reread all my stories once in a while and look at my process, which is always helpful to other stories.