Read-spiration

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About a day or so before I ended up hand writing a good deal of a scene from book 3, what I later referred to as the epiphany, I was pushing myself to at least attempt to get further into the Casual Vacancy. Part of my reasoning was because I knew I was going to be talking about the book on the podcast, and I felt that I should at least attempt to read more of it than I previously had. To my credit, I actually ended up getting a lot further than I’d ever thought I would, and more importantly it sparked in me the desire to get writing again.

A major part of the reason that I have such a hard time actually reading a book cover to cover in less than a few months has, for a long time now, been because of the fact that within a few paragraphs or a few pages, I end up wanting to write something of my own, and drop the book for that. About the only time I attempt to pick up the book again is if I have writers block or if I randomly just decide that I want to read something.

It’s been a few weeks (at least) since my hand written epiphany and as I said in my previous post I haven’t so much as even typed all that up, let alone attempted to write something new. I’ve been trying to consider a dozen different ideas that might spark some kind of creative renaissance in my mind, but maybe reading is all that I really need. It’s worked in the past and at this point, I really have nothing to lose, except my sanity.