First Half of the Year Wrap Up AND Follower Survey!

~HALF YEAR WRAP UP 2012~

I figured this would be a good thing for me to do, lay it all out there and see what is accomplished thus far, and see what else is yet to be done. ^_^

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On The Blog

• Posted 114 posts total (not including this one)
• Written 27 reviews
• Purchased/Borrowed/Won 61 books
• Reached 1131 followers
• Hosted 8 giveaways

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Reading Challenges

2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge:

Finished 11 of the 21 I challenged myself to (right on track!)

2012 EBook Challenge:

Finished 7 of the 10 I challenged myself to (ahead of schedule!)

The Classics Reading Challenge:

Finished 3 of the 8 I challenged myself to (a little behind!)

Goodreads:

Finished 32 of the 52 I challenged myself to (making me 7 books ahead on the year!)

E.E. Cummings

499 of 1026 poems finished (about 48.6% of the way through!)

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Writing Challenges

If Only We:

NaNoWriMo final word count was 50,163
Current revision word count is at 28,230

Before We Knew:

Current word count is at 11,449

Whatever This Is:

No word count, currently outlining and plotting

Otherwise:

I have 4 other ideas I am mulling over at the moment.

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Plans for the rest of the year

• Finish all my reading challenges
• Host a few more giveaways
• Have more posts/reviews
• Have more guest posts
• Finish writing my novel
• Publish my novel
• Have a blog tour for my novel

That's the gist of it anyway. I'm still pushing myself on the publishing my novel thing. I am determined to see this through! Of all the goals I have set, that's the one I want to reach the most.

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~FOLLOWER SURVEY 2012~

As promised, here's the follower survey for you all to take. I just want to get some honest feedback from my followers. See how my blog is now, what I'm doing right, what I'm doing wrong, how I can improve, etc. Just to let you know, it is anonymous, I don't have a spot for you to put your name or email... So PLEASE be completely honest and tell me what you think. I want to know. ^_^

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY!

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So... how was your first half of the year?

Have you set any goals for the rest of the year?

~Jessica

First Half of the Year Wrap Up!

Woot! We are to the halfway point in the year of 2011 and I feel the need for a recap... even though I didn't technically start doing anything with this blog until March. I've missed out on doing monthly recaps like a lot of other book bloggers do, so I thought I could at least do half-year recaps.

What have I done thus far in my book blogging almost half year time period?

I have...

• Written 18 book reviews.
• Written (after this one) 97 posts.
• Posted 85 memes (most combined on the same day so as to save a post).
• Purchased 45 books since March.
• Been participating in 3 reading challenges.
• Read 29 of the 50 books in my Goodreads 2011 Reading Challenge.
• Reached 130 followers.
• One giveaway underway. (Click here to enter)
• Started writing a book (well, make that two).

What am I planning on doing for the rest of this year?

I want to...

• Double my book reviews.
• Start a series of articles about books from my childhood, and other nostalgic bookish things.
• Read the remaining 21 books on my Goodreads challenge and then some.
• Finish all 3 reading challenges.
• Comment more on my fellow bloggers posts.
• Reach 300 followers.
• Host two more giveaways (when I reach the 200 and 300 follower mark).
• Interview an author (I don't know who yet).
• Finish writing at least one of my books, if not both.
• Participate in NaNoWriMo in November.

Now, some of those are high aspirations... but I'm not one to lose hope. I like putting out goals like that. It gets me motivated!

A huge thank you goes out to all of you for being wonderful followers! I always enjoy reading your comments and your posts, reviews, and memes. I can't wait to continue this book-related and sometimes other-strange-thing-related friendship with you. ^_^ Happy reading and let's make the rest of this year awesome!

~Jessica