Allison Symes's Blog - Posts Tagged "inspiration-from-books"
Book Deliveries
I recently took stock of a delivery of copies of my two flash fiction collections. Always a joy to top up on stocks and to open parcels like that.
I love book deliveries, also for when I am buying in other authors’ works. Those parcels are joy to open too!
I’ve never envied Santa for his sleigh round. There will be a lot of books on there - and they’re heavy. Maybe that explains the need for millions of mince pies!
I do, of course, visit book shops (not as often as I’d like. Mind you, this may be a good thing to (a) help my bank balance and (b) you might need a crow bar to get me out of the shop).
But however you get your books, the important thing is to enjoy them.
I like to read widely in and out of my genre (including non-fiction) as that helps me inspire with my own writing.
How? Simply in that an odd line here or there will spark off an idea for a situation I could put my characters into and then have fun working out how they get out of it again, assuming they do.
Also the odd fact can spark ideas for a character.
And the best reason of all to enjoy books?
Simply because reading is fun.
I love book deliveries, also for when I am buying in other authors’ works. Those parcels are joy to open too!
I’ve never envied Santa for his sleigh round. There will be a lot of books on there - and they’re heavy. Maybe that explains the need for millions of mince pies!
I do, of course, visit book shops (not as often as I’d like. Mind you, this may be a good thing to (a) help my bank balance and (b) you might need a crow bar to get me out of the shop).
But however you get your books, the important thing is to enjoy them.
I like to read widely in and out of my genre (including non-fiction) as that helps me inspire with my own writing.
How? Simply in that an odd line here or there will spark off an idea for a situation I could put my characters into and then have fun working out how they get out of it again, assuming they do.
Also the odd fact can spark ideas for a character.
And the best reason of all to enjoy books?
Simply because reading is fun.
