After five years of blogging, sometimes it’s hard to come up with new ideas. So much has changed over the years, including my blogging style, many times over, and I’ve gotten so much more into taking photos and posting on Instagram as a part of my love of books and bookish merch!
In an attempt to keep things interesting and fun, I wanted to started a little something new for me where I take a post that I had originally shared on Instagram — or “bookstagram” for those in the book community — and took it a little further in a blog post. There’s a limited number of characters that you can share on Insta and the point of those posts is more to get to the point, rather than writing a whole narrative, but sometimes each post deserves a few extra words, and “As Seen on Instagram” is a fun way for me to do that!
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Have you ever made any shapes or structures out of books for Instagram?
I don’t usually spend too much time on my Instagram photos anymore but sometimes it’s fun to try something new and go for a big, epic book structure! The other week, I decided to try my hand at making another book spiral!
My spiral was kind of small compared to some of the other big ones and it was pretty unstable once I got to the top — but it held up long enough to get some good photos! Creating a book spiral is a lot harder than it looks! If I turned the books too tightly, it wouldn’t be much of a spiral at all. Too far apart and it doesn’t even look like a spiral — just a bunch of messily stacked books — and it was super shaky if they were too far apart. This was my happy middle ground! I feel like there wasn’t a lot of spines facing out and I was hoping for more spine color than seeing the pages, but I’ll take it!
Do you do anything special like this for Instagram? Which accounts do you follow that make some cool book structures?
If you want to read the original post, check it out above or head to my Instagram page where you can follow for all kinds of bookish photo updates!
