Lucy Carter's Blog, page 6

Odd Sentiments

Hi, everyone! I decided to create a new series of essays called Odd Sentiments on the Goodreads Creative Writing tab. This is a series of essays that reveals the carefree, humorous, weird, and incredibly annoying part of my personality; it pretty much contains all the weird things I think about. Here is the link to the first chapter of this series:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

Chapter 8 of Listening to Music while Solving Math Problems has been Released

This is the last chapter of this series! Check it, along with a piece of my own digital art, here:

https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

Chapter 7 of Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems has been Released

View this chapter in the link below:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

As always, you can find this chapter, along with this entire series, on my website.

By the way, I will be finishing my last essay tomorrow or during the weekends!

Chapter 6 of Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems has Been Released!

You can view this chapter here

You can also view all chapters of Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems on my website

By the way, I am planning on publishing the last essays of this series this week, so please stay tuned to finish reading this series!

Chapter Five of Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems has been Released!

This chapter is called "Listening to Math While Solving Music---Data." You can view it on Goodreads here:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

You should also be able to view it on my website, now that it has been published. Either one works, though. :)

My new website

Hi, everyone! Yesterday, I finished making my own website. It contains information about myself and my writing. It's not advanced or fancy, and as of right now, I only have three posts on it, but if you want, you can check it out! Enjoy!

https://lucylcarter.wixsite.com/website

You are more than welcome to give me recommendations to improve my website. This is actually my first time making a website! ^_^

Goodreads.com is the only "social media" I check daily

I'll admit it. I have never elevated any other social media platform at such a high status. I do not have Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Tik Tok, or anything similar. I have a Reddit account, but I only made one post on it, and the only time I use my account is when I want to help answer fellow community members' surveys in the "takemysurvey" group.

Goodreads, however, is a different story. I check it at least three times a day. Even before completing school work, I give in to the temptation to click on the shortcut with the brown "g" in a box.

Of course, as an author, Goodreads.com is essential to me, but there is so much more to Goodreads than building a platform for authors' promotion.

I know that Facebook, Tik Tok, and Twitter are meant for a wider variety of individuals and posts, but I can't help but embrace Goodreads.com, among all other websites. Even before I acquired an Author Profile, I still used this website as a reviewer.

I mean, I take pride in being an individual who frequently visits a website dedicated to books, reading, and writing! What I admire about this website is that people of all nationalities, backgrounds, personalities, genders, demographics, and professions unite to talk about books, reading, and writing. Now, there are common stereotypes and misconceptions about people who read/write:
-They are intelligent, or embrace intelligence
-They are introverted
-They have expansive vocabularies
-They wear glasses
-They are serious

However, I have seen people who both align these stereotypes (in a good way, though) and subvert these stereotypes. There are writers and readers who embrace intelligence, live independently, have an expansive vocabulary, and think seriously about what they read, which is very inspiring to me, because that is what I always aspire to do, but I also admire the readers and writers who bring humor, colloquialisms, liveliness, and their own cultures into their book reviews and writing. On no other platform do I see people of diverse personalities and backgrounds discuss books, reading, and writing! It is possible for platforms such as Facebook to have this, but stuff like this is buried in other posts. Goodreads is actually CENTERED around creating a diverse book community. Goodreads.com, generally speaking, doesn't just pigeonhole people who read.

Plus, Goodreads.com usually filters out all the non-book-related material and leaves me with something I am genuinely passionate about: an entire website dedicated to reading and writing. In social media platforms such as Facebook, practically ANYTHING can be posted, so there could be stuff that I would rather not view. (Ex. Nude photos, sexualized men and women, disturbing things in politics, etc.) I am pretty sure there are people who read and rate books about the examples I listed, but there is a lower risk of having to see that material. Pure book talk and writing can be revealed!

Chapter 4 of Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems has been Released

You can view this chapter here:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

Chapter 3 of Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems has Been Released!

Hi, everyone! I released Chapter 3 of "Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems!" This chapter is called "Anxiety to Exhilaration!" You can view it in the link below:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

Chapter Two of Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems has been Released

Hi, everyone! I released Chapter 2 of "Listening to Music While Solving Math Problems!" This chapter is called "Why Music?" You can view it in the link below:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Hope you enjoy!