Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I've been writing everyday in 2025: here's how the first 4 weeks of that practice have gone, along with my ongoing goals & some tips of sorts
0:25 day 18
5:07 day 22
8:07 day 28
17:13 tips
books mentioned:
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (1992)
For Now by Eileen Myles (2020)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
I've been writing everyday in 2025: here's how the first 4 weeks of that practice have gone, along with my ongoing goals & some tips of sorts
0:25 day 18
5:07 day 22
8:07 day 28
17:13 tips
books mentioned:
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (1992)
For Now by Eileen Myles (2020)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com










![Reading vlog: DNFs in 2022 so far & climbing out of a reading slump
Some [good] books I haven’t been able to finish so far this year + trying to get out of a reading slump. Let me know what books have gotten YOU out of slumps before! Let me know the ones that put you there! Tell me why Im wrong to have dropped the books I did!
Books I mention:
🐡The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing (2013)
🐡I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins (2021)
🐡The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight (2022)
🐌Essays Two by Lydia Davis (2021)
🐌Speedboat by Renata Adler (1976)
🍋Homesick for another World by Ottessa Moshfegh (2017)
🍋McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh (2014)
🍋The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (2018)
🍋Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu (2022)
🍋Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman (1999)
🍋Look at Me by Jennifer Egan (2001)
🍋Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen (1971)
🍋The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
🍋The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
Other mentions:
@hannahmay11 April wrap-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmyxe-XZY0s
@linenlibrarian California dreamin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa4-KqetOB8
The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-psychiatrist-who-believed-people-could-tell-the-future/amp
Me elsewhere:
Insta (@sdelphis): https://www.instagram.com/sdelphis/?hl=en
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com Reading vlog: DNFs in 2022 so far & climbing out of a reading slump](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UPcabCUaGwM/mqdefault.jpg)