i started reading again in April and I was really enjoying weird girl literary fiction books. This month i decided to try out romantasy due to the hype so I read ACOTAR and loved how addictive it was despite cringing at some parts. Now when I’m trying to read my lit fic books it’s been much harder to get into or to continue reading as I’m itching for that “can’t put the book down” feeling. I also get like this when I read my romance books as a palate cleanser but then end up wanting to read more romances!

Do others feel this way? And how do you get back into reading slower books like literary fiction or even classics?

I also have ADHD so I wonder if it’s just me getting addicted to the dopamine haha

So I have recently started working on a fantasy novel, and I've come to realize that my prose is absolute trash compared to what I like to read. It's bland, bare-bones, one-note, and clunky. I'm constantly at a loss for words, and everything I write is lackluster in some way. It's very frustrating. I feel like my writing is at a 6th-grade level.

I read almost exclusively in English—a wide variety of genres, and have done so for the past 10 years or so—but it's not my native language. I'm really frustrated because I used to be decent at writing in Farsi—at least I didn't have to think about grammar and vocabulary—but now it's as if I'm recovering from a stroke. I can't write at all in either language it seems.

Do you have any tips for me on how I can improve my writing? Or how not to get pissed off at myself after struggling for an entire afternoon to write a simple hike-through-the-forest scene?

did all of us readers have our wattpad/ ao3 era?? and did it all start at like 10-12 bcz i feel like we are all living the same life over here😪