Good morning everyone (or whatever time of day it is where you are) 🌞 I was setting up for my morning writing session, and I thought of making a post to get to know other writers here on PB.

Do any of you write, as a hobby or professionally? What kind of stories, poetry, etc. do you write, and in what language(s)? Are you currently working on anything specific? Tell us a bit about yourself, and let's get to know each other! Feel free to also link any profiles where you post your writing or any of your publications.

I've always written for fun ever since I was a kid, and I would love to get published someday, but it's hard to find the time to work on longer projects as an adult! I write mostly in Spanish, and mostly sci-fi and horror, although I don't limit myself when it comes to genre and also like to write poetry here and there.

I don't post my writing anywhere, and I only share it with classmates when I occasionally take a writing course for fun, mostly because most online writing spaces I know are in English and I don't have the energy to keep up a blog 😅 Maybe I'll take some inspiration from everyone's replies 🫶

My short-term goal is to start participating in writing contests to get over the awkward feeling that comes from sharing my writing, and to see if I'd be able to make a little bit of money from writing 🤞 My medium-term goal is to finish a sci-fi novel I'm working on that examines themes of community, survival, and finding meaning in just sharing a life with each other when our world falls apart.

What about everyone else? 😊

"Being a girlfriend is similar to joining the Franciscans or the Freemasons."

Reality I never want to leave your mind.

It’s getting into the wee hours, and I’m spiraling because I just finished a book and that reminded me of a talk I had with my students about showing vs. telling, and the magic of visualization. We had a great discussion about dialogue, narration, and the variety of dialogue tags that all help create the vision the author is aiming for in each conversation.

That led to another question: how do we actually visualize when we read? I loved the range of responses I got. Some students said they see full scenes unfolding like a movie, some (like me) hear their own inner monologue narrating the book, and others don’t feel much happening in their heads at all. Needless to say, it blew their minds that visualization looks so different for everyone!

Naturally, I want to know: how do all of you visualize while you read? I want to know your brains. Explain yourselves!

Since I’m an inner-voice kind of reader, I’m a sucker for an immersive read, especially if it includes a graphic audio. 🫖

Do we think authors are ever looking at the comments or discussion under one of their books, seeing what everyone has to say? I’m imagining authors under a blanket behind their laptops just like “that is NOT what my vision was for this character” or “ohhh good point I wish I did that on purpose”

Fatma may be the most one dimensional main character I've read and it's making this book an absolute slog to get through. The commentary on class and race and gentrification is all getting lost in the look-at-me-im-a-quirky-gay-woman. Also having the main character be gay but not engaging in any of the politics of queerness or deconstruction of gender/relationships is making her even flatter! In a world where there is discrimination and social hierarchy we're not engaging in the politics of queerness?! Make is make sense!

It’s getting into the wee hours, and I’m spiraling because I just finished a book and that reminded me of a talk I had with my students about showing vs. telling, and the magic of visualization. We had a great discussion about dialogue, narration, and the variety of dialogue tags that all help create the vision the author is aiming for in each conversation.

That led to another question: how do we actually visualize when we read? I loved the range of responses I got. Some students said they see full scenes unfolding like a movie, some (like me) hear their own inner monologue narrating the book, and others don’t feel much happening in their heads at all. Needless to say, it blew their minds that visualization looks so different for everyone!

Naturally, I want to know: how do all of you visualize while you read? I want to know your brains. Explain yourselves!

Since I’m an inner-voice kind of reader, I’m a sucker for an immersive read, especially if it includes a graphic audio. 🫖

Here on our dear Pagebound Club we often talk about adaptations. Transposing a story from a written media to visual one is no easy task, and a lot of choices need to be made. How to render internal monolog, how to keep a good pace when you only have 2 hours to put 500 pages of content ? But now let's ask the real question : which show or movie would you love to read about ? If you could get a novel, or a trilogy, out of any show or movie ? Get the internal dialogs, feeling everything from the inside ?

And even more crucial question : is there a show/movie based on a book – not perfectly accurate adaptation – you would want to read a new book ?

I'm asking because of the NBC show Hannibal based on the book Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. They took a lot of liberty with the scenario and I'm OBSESSED with the final product. I love everything about the show, the photography, the actors, the editing, but when i tell you i'd be ready to give my soul to read the story from the inside 👀

I didn't expect that I would like sci-fi. At first I thought it would be boring, heavy, and full of difficult theories. But, one day I gave it a chance so I grabbed The Three-Body Problem by Ciu Lixin and yes yes I do like it 😝 and now I'm interested to Dune and other sci-fi (you can recommend sci-fi book. I'm new in this field!) Maybe, you should give a chance to the genre(s) you dislike. Who knows, maybe you will like it! 👻

Hello Readers!

I recently watched this youtube video of a girl casually reading every single day, even stopping herself at times so she doesnt finish the book. (Ive only felt that way about 1-2 books thus far).

I was wondering if anyone has any tips for reading more consistently?

P.s: im also a neurodivergent, i struggle to get things started all the time🙈

Thanks in advance!