My daughter went with me last night to a meeting and where she was waiting was a television. Someone asked her what she'd like to watch and she kindly said, "Oh, I'll read instead." :-) She whipped the I-Touch out and started reading. That's me, or that use to be me. This made me think about the amount of reading I do for writing and the absence of my pleasure reading. I have a voracious appetite for books. Yet, I barely have the time or even try to make the time anymore for pleasure reading. I spend the better part of my leisure time (ha!) reading up on the craft. Mind you, I put in a solid 8 hours a day on my writing, all aspects of it. I barely eek out 1 pleasure book a month for a book club I am in. I am accustomed to reading at least a book a week, but for the last year, it is has been one book a month. I will start reading our book club selection and all of a sudden those characters are running around in my head and my novel's characters really don't share well, so guess who wins out?
Are you a writer? Have you, or are you experiencing these same things? Do you have any suggestions?
Let me know.
Until next time,
M.Rene
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