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**dylan joseph\
• Feb 21 2025

Happy almost March, everyone!
It's officially our first month with the Kiln Media Club Discord Server!
We've got some great titles out for voting this month and I hope you all are excited about them!
It's FREE to join the Kiln Media Club, but if you'd like access to private chats and other perks, consider upgrading your membership to The Atelier tier! You'll get a free copy of my debut novel, The Lies We Tell, early access to my YouTube videos, and more!

Vote on our March Media Club Books and TV Shows!

EARLY ACCESS: February wrap-up and March TBR

PRE-ORDER MY DEBUT NOVEL HERE: www.dylanjosephwrites.com/shop
Contact: dylan.joseph@thestation.io
In this video, I talk about the books I read in February and the ones I plan on reading in March!

Video contents

0:00 - intro
2:01 - last, now, and next reads
6:09 - putting my current wip aside
12:03 - reviving an old manuscript
18:56 - about my debut novel
24:32 - writing q&a/advice session
36:47 - outro

Thanks for being here and I can't wait to make YouTube my main content source because it's always been my favorite place to be!

Journal Prompt .003

February 17th

What season of your life would you say you're in now? Are you in spring? Are you in winter? Why?
Happy Thursday everyone! We're back for another journal prompt, and I have to say that I find myself journaling with this prompt so often. I always come back to it and I hope you find something new about yourself in your entries today!

Journal Entry of the Day

February 24, 2025

What is something that once defined you but no longer does? How do you feel about that change?
Another day, another journal prompt! If you have any specific requests for topics you'd like prompts for, comment them below or shoot a message in Discord!

Poll: Are you in a reading slump right now?

I've been in a reading slump for the past week or two, which is particularly frustrating, considering I am in the middle of my most anticipated book of 2025.
It is nowhere near because of the book I'm reading. In fact, if I wasn't reading Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, I probably wouldn't be reading anything at all right now.
The world has been tough lately (and by the world, I most certainly mean living in the United States), and I recognize there are many places in the world where living is much, much harder. I think that is part of what has made it difficult lately to sit down and read for long periods of time. I feel equally strained and ashamed for feeling this way.

Why am I so anxious about the state of my home country when other places around the world have been experiencing similar, or worse, legislature and governments for years? Am I allowed to feel this way?
Yes, of course I am.
But there is this odd fighting and pulling in my brain where I consistently feel hurt for myself and protective over others who are experiencing worse than me. Perhaps this is unfair to me (it most certainly is). I should be able to allow myself to feel the unease and hurt during this time. But, I also can't let it be the only thing I feel.

So, to make a long story short, I am reading, and I enjoy what I read. But life, under circumstances beyond my control, has taken over, and I haven't been able to put forth the energy I want to read.
My head is heavy, my brain full of white noise, and my limbs are sleepy.
But I hope this reading slump resolves itself soon. Because I surely cannot wait for nearly four years of this chaos to subside.
What are you reading right now?

Journal Entry of the Day

February 23, 2025

If you had the power to, when would you travel back to revisit? What would you try to change, if anything? Why?
Another day, another journal prompt! If you have any specific requests for topics you'd like prompts for, comment them below or shoot a message in Discord!

Journal Entry of the Day

February 21, 2025

What moment in your life would you pick as your defining moment?—the time of your life that altered the trajectory of your life, who you are, and who you came to be?

Your Guide to Reading VE Schwab's Books!

You’re legally required to read all of her books now just saying
I could only fit so many books in 90 seconds, so read any of these books in between the others! I just wouldn’t start your VE Schwab journey with them! They’re good ones to give you a break into her longer works:

Books Mentioned

DND on for the rest of my life to appreciate this

i’m writing a romance book 🌲 about my debut novel, writing q&a, & ditching my manuscript

PRE-ORDER MY DEBUT NOVEL HERE: www.dylanjosephwrites.com/shop
Contact: dylan.joseph@thestation.io
In this video, I talk about why I decided to put a pause on the novel I've talked about on social media already, answer some writing questions and give advice, and rant about the current political climate.