How to; write review posts

Heey ! 👋🏼

Are you one of thoses bloggers who are a bit sluggish/find it hard to do review posts?

Well my guys, you are in luck 😘 I decided to give you my advices onto how I, myself, write my reviews and how I get to save so much time that upon finishing a book, I only need to fix a few stuff, decide when I wanna post it and tada!! Done!

Unless said book has been DNFed, or I *reaally* don’t know what to say about a book, I choose to review them all on my blog. Of course if you want to do that or not, it’s your choice.

As you may know already, my brain kind of tend to forget stuff 🙈 which is not really helping my cause in reviewing ahah.. so here’s what I do;

1- I start by reading a few chapters.. this is mainly where I see if I wanna continue reading/like it/have things to say,etc.

2- After being a few % in said book and all go well, I will start my “skeleton” of my review. I’ll start what I want in my intro; if it’s an arc I may wanna say I got it from Netgalley, when it’s being published, by which company.. I may add to that later aswell. Next, i’ll put the “read more” and link the Goodreads’ page as I don’t wanna do my own synopsis anymore 🙈, and leave the note on 5 blank. Then I like to include a list of my thoughts as I’m still reading to help give the readers a better opinion of my review/not forget stuff which will help my general idea at the end.

3- When the skeleton is ready, I simply save it onto my wordpress drafts. After every reading session, I will then update my goodread’s with where I stand in my book (pages or %, depends if its an ebook or a print) and if I have something to say and don’t wanna forget, im gonna head to my draft and add that in there. Don’t forget to save !!

I will continue doing that until I reach that point where my brain go “!!!” And I can add a note /5, and start creating my general idea, which is the very last part of my review and what I will copy and paste to Goodreads/ retail websites/ etc.

If I have a deadline or a good idea of when I’ll finish it, I will then start programming my post, add the tags, the message that’s gonna go upon sharing .. all that good stuff.

** even at that point, I can totally go back and fix a few things before it publishes. It may happen that I have ONE thing I think the most, finish the book and bam actually I was wrong. Which is not so bad, as it’s like 95% done at that point 😂 so it end up way less time consuming and is ready to go in no time.

I love to take a few days off reading after I finish a book; to get myself to get out of that book hangover and step out of that universe; but even if I didn’t and read multiple books at the time, I think having them on drafts and writing as you go is so much easier!! That way you don’t have to pause all the time to take note (im bad at this.. I hate writing in my books AND i’ll probably lose my train of imagination) and you won’t forget what was for which book you read/forgot to write something down and end up not putting it in you review, etc.

Also the time you save ! It prevents yourself of pushing it to later, and later.. to completely forget about it and potentially have to reread again as you forgot the whole thing 😂 ..which is a bad, bad thing.

Hopefully my post helped you a bit! remember you can always tweak and modify some things so it works better for you 💕

How do you write your review? Do you have a “plan” like I do, or do you go in more carefree ? Do you review most of everything you read?