My New Dreamwidth Acount

Hello. I've looked at Dreamwidth and admired it from afar in the past, but it always seemed complicated and difficult to navigate to me, compared with the mediums I'm more familiar with, so I never joined. But in the last two or three years, I found out about Get Your Words Out and I wanted to try it, but I kept remembering about it too late. This year I read about it on two blogs I follow just in time. So I joined Dreamwidth specifically to do the Get Your Words Out challenge. I pledged for the Habit version of the challenge and I pledged at least 120 days of working on writing in 2018.

Through those same two blogs I follow, I was reminded of Novel Knight's "Beat the Backlist" Challenge and I could really use to do that this year and I would like to. So I think I'm going to use my Dreamwidth account for tracking both of those things. Additionally, since I am already using it for both of those things, and since my other blogs aren't entirely along the lines of personal blogs (though they are personal in many ways), I think I'll use this blog to track and write about my reading and writing in general.

I still don't really know how this website works, but so far it isn't as complicated as I feared, and hopefully I'll be able to figure it out as I go along.

Edited to add: Here is the link to the post where I'm keeping track of the books I've read for the Beat the Backlist Challenge so far: My list of books read.

Beat the Backlist -- 2018

This is my post announcing my intention to participate in Novel Knight's Beat the Backlist Challenge for 2018. Right now I don't have a complete reading list for the year, and I may never - or my list may change as I go along. But I'll try to get at least a partial list up at some point. I do plan on reading lots of Pagan books and those about polytheisms and animism, both ancient and modern. I also hope to read lots of LGBTQUIA books as well as books about disability rights and chronic illnesses. I'll probably read a lot of fantasy books and I also want to read some books of myths. I also plan on reading some books specific to certain rpg settings. And I'd like to read a few biographies of a few of my favorite writers. That's all I've got for now.

Edited to add: Here is the link to the post where I'm keeping track of the books I've read for the Beat the Backlist Challenge so far: My list of books read.

And here is a link to my reading list for the challenge for this year. It'll get changed over time as I add and remove books to the list: My 2018 Reading List.