So I've nuked my writing

 

A very dramatic title, I know. I’m also not sure how many, if any, people read these, but it’s something I wanted to put out, just to get it out of my brain, especially since that’s what this platform is for me. It’s a place to get my writing/bookish thoughts out.

The short version is that I’ve nuked this platform, and my other writing platform, and my bookish YouTube content because I don’t want to write a glorified book report for every book, good or bad, I read and want to do different bookish content. I want to post what I think is more varied and not be a place of negativity on the internet.

The longer version can come down to a few things. The first being what I mentioned above. I started writing what was essentially a book report with mild review aspects within those book reports for every single book that I was reading to which I would also make content to go alongside it – like uploading to my book Instagram account, and my Booktube account on YouTube. I was doing this for every book I read, no matter how long or short, whether it was a standalone or series, and no matter how I felt about the book, positive or negative. One thing that came from this was that online, I see so many people crying out about how negative the internet it, or how negative their feeds are, how toxic their social media is. Then I think to my K-pop Twitter account, and how not like that my feed is. My K-pop Twitter is, I’d say, 99% positive because I’d made it that way with what I was interacting with and also putting out. That’s something that’s fed over into the bookish content I consume. I do have a book Twitter account, but that’s destitute and I only go on it on my laptop for my own sanity, and I do have a Bookstagram account, too where I also post every book I read, just with a sentence or two about it. How this is relevant, though. There was part of me that felt like by posting about books I didn’t enjoy, or like, I was feeding into negativity on the internet, and I just don’t want to do that. If I want to write about a singular book, it’ll be because I loved it, and if there’s anything negative, I’m just not going to post about it. I want my pages to be a positive place, that’s as simple as it is. I don’t want to be a source a negativity online.

What this means is that ultimately I will be posting less on my written platforms (my blog and my Medium page), but I’ll still post about the individual books I’ve read over on my Instagram, because that still is just a place for me to chronicle what I’ve read, more for me than anything else. And the stuff that I will be posting, unless it ends up being about a singular book I loved, will be longer and more to a topic. Think my recent blind date with a book post, or maybe a Trope Talk. Something bookish, but not just about a singular book. It’s also going to be mostly only posting when I feel like I have something worth posting and talking about on these platforms, rather than just slopping a few mediocre book reports-slash-reviews every month so that I can feel excited about what I’ll be slopping out instead. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to think about what I’m writing, but the danger of having longer pieces is that for the most part I write the same way that I think, so you are going to be subject to that.

You can follow me on my Bookstagram (MatthewReadsIGuess) or my book Twitter (MattReadsIGuess) if you really want lol. I’ve got something I’ve written about parasocial relationships in books coming soon, so look forward to that.

Okay, bye!!!