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[Beena]

But give me a 20 page paper to write on a topic, and I'm your guy..

Lol, Iain, don't you do this on virtually every BR when you're talking about something you're passionate about?! *The irony* :p

[Beena]

One of my daughters has a passion for writing and has been working on a novel for several years now.

That's pretty cool Tammie!

[Beena]

@Jessica
All soul but no talent (talent might be the wrong word here).

No, I think you're right, talent is the word.

I love words, love writing, love reading, but when it comes to writing something completely made up I'm at a loss. All heart but no really talent for creating.

See, I find this really interesting. I've always sort of thought that most readers will have some sort of affinity to creating stories because they read so much and their imagination is so broad in order to do so.

[Beena]

As for me, when I was a child I wanted to be an author. I used to read absolutely everything (wasn't until my teens that fantasy became my go-to) and used to love writing stories. I was really good at English, it used to be one of my favourite subjects. Then it was more art/design that took over and I've been happy just reading too. But (and this gonna sound weird lol) I've always sort of day-dreamed and made up various little scenarios or whatever just to entertain myself lol. It wasn't until my mum said to me a little while ago, "well, you're a writer" (and that's only because I proofread some complaint or something over for her and heavily edited it lol) that got me thinking well, what would I write, if I did? And just thinking about the amount of work involved just gives you a new appreciation for what authors do and how hard it must be... it's quite crazy when you think about it.

[Elizabeth]

When I was in I think 1st grade I won the Virginia young authors contest. I wrote a very short story about a hungry cat who made some soup and it kept getting stolen by mice.

In high school I also wrote a book I shared with friends but that has been long lost on a flash drive I no longer have. Probably for the best, I don't know if I'd want to read it.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

This has the makings of those mythic cult books like House of Leaves

[Mei ☽︎]

I'm definitely both a reader and a writer!! Idk, I always say I want to publish something one day but I'm nowhere near actually doing that. I just love creating worlds and making characters to put them in there and it's really fun for me to come up with their histories and imagine their life trajectories, think about how characters would be if they ever interacted and also fleshing out more with worldbuilding + creating factions, etc. etc. But I have so many ideas that I don't even know which one to really start with if I ever did decide to do a novel, y'know?

But definitely draw inspiration from all sorts of things, life experiences, other people's life experiences, concepts and ideas that I love, relationship dynamics that I like, etc. etc. I also grew up writing and reading a lot of fanfic. REALLY good at starting projects, but rarely good at finishing 🤣 So atm, I'm more of a reader and that's good enough for me unless I put more focus on it. 😂

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

The next question is how many people play D&D... it's a low pressure way to flesh that desire to create...

I don;t play D&D, but I watch D&D, and alot of writers (comedians, script writers, authors) do Actual Play stuff...

[Elizabeth]

I do play D&D. We try to do it every Saturday. Never DM'd and honestly don't feel much desire to. I just want to play.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

being a player has a lot of creativity too, depending how in-depth you get with your backstory & interactions...

[Elizabeth]

Not super in-depth but I am getting better with that.

[Jessica]

Beena wrote: "@Jessica
All soul but no talent (talent might be the wrong word here).

No, I think you're right, talent is the word.

I love words, love writing, love reading, but when it comes to writing someth..."

I feel like I could write a recycled story. Example being if there's an apocalypse where all books/movies vanished, I could probably retell a bunch of stories. Keep the world of Valdemar, or the shire alive for future generations, but creating all new characters in a brand new world is something that I have trouble with. Might just be I'm impatient and reading is so much easier than writing lol.

@Iain I've played a few D&D sessions but not many and the groups always ended up falling apart (just random life stuff, kids, jobs, ect. adulting is hard and time consuming). It definitely took me a little bit to get more creative with my character. Never DM'd anything though, I just went along for the ride.

[Shaitarn]

I love writing and would love to be published, but honestly don't know if I have the talent for it.

Never played any D&D or any tabletop RPs, but I've RPed in lots of other ways (computer games, play by (e) mail and on computer servers. I'm a member of the Roleplayer Guild online - it's basically you and other people (could be one or several) playing a RP by writing down your character(s) actions, and what happens next. I find it a lot of fun.

[Monika]

D&D? Hmmm... Didn't play this one... I'm more puzzle gamer :) plus some tactics games, few roleplays and lots of farming games (Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons). Only one online game I did years ago was Gems of War if I remember correctly :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Monika wrote: "D&D? Hmmm... Didn't play this one... I'm more puzzle gamer :) plus some tactics games, few roleplays and lots of farming games (Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons). Only one online game I did years ..."

Gems of War is a money machine that ate my money... had to force myself to quit... I initially played when Mab and the new ice mechanics were OP... then they immediately nerfed and turned around and released a kingdom of cards to counter Mab tactics...

It really scratched that Puzzle Quest itch in a unique way, for a bit, tho... if I could just curb my spending I could have played it for years...

[Mei ☽︎]

I've played some tabletop inc. D&D and Shadowrun, but not a lot! I enjoy watching campaigns more 😂

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Mei ☽︎ wrote: "I've played some tabletop inc. D&D and Shadowrun, but not a lot! I enjoy watching campaigns more 😂"

I definitely enjoy watching

[Monika]

Iain - both me and my man played Gems :) were in nice guild, we're still in contact with some of them peeps. We lost one of them few months ago... She died suddenly... Couldn't believed it... She was travelling the world with her man few good years... We never spent real money on the game (went hard way :)). We left years ago. He's Gears of War man ;)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I got hooked on the early 90% off deals, then spent some more on the Mab stuff... had a few solid weeks, and went for high PVP rank once... but I quickly knew that wasn't sustainable... I tried returning a few years later, and the game was quite a bit different, and quite a bit more popular, with season passes and stuff... much less likely to be able to top rank PVP anymore, either... quit again faster, because the urge to spend was high...

[Monika]

I'm not playing online anymore :) less stress :)

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Just looking at the image makes me want to play again… the game is well designed to siren song me into drowning at sea…

I mostly play casual, solo, idle games and puzzles these days… coloring pixels hexceed picross/nonograms, etc… and a few old standby RPG and collector games…

[Rob]

I keep trying to geet myself back into the Baldur's Gates Games enhanced ones on Steam. Played some Red Dead Redemption II on my laptop earlier for the first time in months. if I have idle play its usually something like slither.io or Euchre on my phone :)

[Monika]

Baldur's Gate :) we played this against each other with my man on PlayStation 2 LOL!!! We argued all the time about stealing weapons from treasure chests hahahaha!!!

[Mei ☽︎]

I must admit that whenever Goodreads is down, I'm always like I wish there was a discord to be able to still chat with folks here 🤣 I hope GR remains stable for a while. 😭 Definitely motivated me to work on my book spreadsheet yesterday hahahah!

[Siobhan]

What is Goodreads playing at?! I couldn't get on at all last night, and now it's failing every other click 🥴🙈

I agree Mei!! I'm in touch with quite a few of us on Instagram though so that helps!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

it seems like a great idea when the site breaks down, but completely unnecessary the other 90-99% of the time...

I guess, if the site ever truly breaks for more than a few hours, we can always set something up through the spreadsheet announcement section...

[Narilka]

It seems to be a lot better now.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

definitely less failures, since I got home from shopping 90 minutes ago... maybe 0 failures, actually...

[Nirkatze]

Sometimes I keep notes in a text file to copy... and sometimes I just give up and read solid when GR breaks....

[Beena]

It's so frustrating when it gets like it was yesterday.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Beena wrote: "It's so frustrating when it gets like it was yesterday."

Back when there was a Feedback Group, they used to say that they had data that showed XYZ time of year was the slowest time of the year for the website, and best for doing maintenance/etc to the site...

But if that were true, why don't they just pre-warn people with a banner saying "service will be spotty this week, as we work to improve the website backend / do some routine maintenance", instead of leaving people guessing if the website is being DDoSed by hackers messing with people...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Here we go!

Jul 1, 2023 Blood of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #7) by Roger Zelazny
Jul 1, 2023 The Everafter War (The Sisters Grimm #7) by Michael Buckley
Jul 1, 2023 The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) by R.F. Kuang
Jul 1, 2023 Secret Project #3 by Brandon Sanderson
Jul 1, 2023 Call of the Bone Ships ( The Tide Child #2) by R.J. Baker
Jul 2, 2023 Maker's Curse (Millennium’s Rule #4) by Trudi Canavan
Jul 3, 2023 Star Witch (The Lazy Girl's Guide to Magic #2) by Helen Harper
Jul 3, 2023 Celebrity in Death (In Death #34) by JD Robb
Jul 4, 2023 Air Awakens (Air Awakens #1) by Elise Kova
Jul 5, 2023 Chimes at Midnight (October Daye #7) by Seanan McGuire
Jul 5, 2023 The Hanged Man (Tarot Sequence #2) by K.D. Edwards
Jul 7, 2023 The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven #2) by Juno Dawson
Jul 8, 2023 Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files #7) by Charles Stross
Jul 10, 2023 The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jul 10, 2023 Wild Sky by Zaya Feli
Jul 10, 2023 The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown #1) by Hannah F. Whitten
Jul 12, 2023 Quantum Curators (#2) and the Enemy Within by Eva St. John
Jul 13, 2023 The Law & Little Things (Dresden Files #17.1 & 17.4) by Jim Butcher
Jul 13, 2023 The Bone Shard Emperor (Drowning Empire #2) by Andrea Stewart
Jul 15, 2023 Part-Time Gods (DFZ #2) by Rachel Aaron
Jul 15, 2023 Traitor's Blade (Greatcloaks #1) by Sebastien de Castell
Jul 15, 2023 Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo
Jul 15, 2023 The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles #2) by Rick Riordan
Jul 15, 2023 The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan
Jul 15, 2023 Heart of the Sun Warrior (The Celestial Kingdom Duology #2) by Sue Lynn Tan
Jul 15, 2023 Heart of the Sun Warrior (Celestial Kingdom #2) by Sue Lynn Tan
Jul 17, 2023 The Midnight Star (Young Elites #3) by Marie Lu
Jul 18, 2023 The Mercenary's Bounty (Age of the Andinna #2) by Kristen Banet
Jul 19, 2023 Bared Blade (Fallen Blade #2) by Kelly McCullough
Jul 20, 2023 A Time of Dread (Of Blood & Bone #1) by John Gwynne
Jul 20, 2023 14 (Threshold #1) by Peter Clines
Jul 21, 2023 Dragon and Judge (Dragonback #5) by Timothy Zahn
Jul 25, 2023 The Traitor (Covenant of Steel #3) by Anthony Ryan
Jul 25, 2023 For the Throne (Wilderwood #2) by Hannah F. Whitten
Jul 28, 2023 Flamecaster (Shattered Realms #1) by Cinda Williams Chima

[Nirkatze]

Serpent's Shadow is for August! I put the date in wrong in the spreadsheet, but Yanique found & fixed it in the actual thread, thank goodness.

[Nyssa]

The list is missing Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher for July 1st.

Edited to Add: The discussion thread.

[Monika]

Are we reading books 2&3 of Kane Chronicles the same time?

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I think that’s an unfixed typo during requests…

[Nirkatze]

Monika wrote: "Are we reading books 2&3 of Kane Chronicles the same time?"

The thread is properly set to August for #3. But when I put it in, I put it in wrong. Yanique caught it & fixed it in the thread, but I think this list might be copied straight from the excel request list...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm supposed to fix that part...

:D

EDIT: Fixed on the spreadsheet...

[Tonari no Emily]

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of the default edition of books are not in English? I thought it was supposed to be the most popular edition?

[Nyssa]

Yes! All of the Chronicles of Amber books are suddenly in Russian!

[Tonari no Emily]

Okay glad I'm not the only one! Its actually getting hard to find the edition I'm looking for now lol

[Nyssa]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Okay glad I'm not the only one! Its actually getting hard to find the edition I'm looking for now lol"

I tend to look up the ISBN or ASIN when adding books (to ensure it has the cover I have).

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Has GR been hacked by Russians?

[Charlie]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Has anyone else noticed that a lot of the default edition of books are not in English? I thought it was supposed to be the most popular edition?"

yeah, I was searching for a book earlier and it gave me loads of French editions.

[Siobhan]

I noticed that with A Deadly Education! I just figured Naomi Novik is really popular in Russia and Eastern Europe! Made it confusing to pick the top 5 for my competition page count haha.

[Felina]

I had this problem yesterday when trying to request the Dragonlance books. Half the books were in Spanish or Russian. Freaking annoying.

[Felina]

That’s why I messed up my submission. That’s the only reason though. Not because I didn’t read the instructions. It was totally the language thing.

[Siobhan]

🤣🤣

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

If I see french text on Goodreads, I dunno if it's GR acting wonky, or an Elinor review :D

[Monika]

Hmmm... I have A Deadly Education... Maybe I'll find a time to read it in August or September...