For Writers: How to Keep Reading While Writing

::Yes, two reading posts one after the other. I’ve really been focused on reading this year.::

At twenty-three, fresh out of college and trying to make a go of my writing career, I was burnt out on reading. After all, when you’re an English major, despite the creative writing emphasis, you tend to take a lot of literature classes. I read tens of thousands of pages those four-and-a-half years I spent in college. Those thick books, printed on thin paper in tiny print cost almost $100 each at th...