Reading a Poem, Short Story, or Essay Every Night
by carla
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).
Looking Back: I'm learning a lot about comparative writing styles as well as different eras of literature.
Update #2: One-month anniversary
10% completeTomorrow 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% completeReally enjoying this habit