Reading a Poem, Short Story, or Essay Every Night

by carla

Reading & Literature In Progress

Reading & Literature Journey Overview

Follow this step-by-step reading & literature journey to see real progress updates, challenges overcome, and practical experience.

Progress Updates (3 total)

Update #1: Reading a Poem, Short Story, or Essay Every Night

Challenged by a Ray Bradbury quote to do just that. Doing so in addition to my own voracious reading.
Challenges Overcome: Started November 13 by rereading William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"; have kept it up every evening since.
Obstacles Faced: Fighting my health (fatigue).
Next Steps: Keeping a list of readings in my Second Brain in the Obsidian app.
Looking Back: I'm learning a lot about comparative writing styles as well as different eras of literature.

Update #2: One-month anniversary

10% complete
Tomorrow is my one-month anniversary of doing this every day. List of authors so far: - Elizabeth Bishop - Algernon Blackwood - William Blake - William Faulkner - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Shirley Jackson - James Joyce - Caroline Kepnes - Stephen King - Margo Lanagan - Joyce Carol Oates - Sylvia Plath - Katherine Anne Porter - William Shakespeare - Kurt Vonnegut - Karl Edward Wagner

Update #3: Still continuing

95% complete
Really enjoying this habit