{"id":513,"date":"2011-04-01T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2011\/04\/01\/yarghing\/"},"modified":"2020-12-23T21:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:54:19","slug":"yarghing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2011\/04\/01\/yarghing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarghing!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reading is not enough sometimes. Nor is reading in one\u2019s genre a good standard rule to set either. No, I\u2019ve found out in \u201cthe recent past\u201d that if a person want to write, that person should still be familiar with the genre they wish to write, but even more important is to read books that give them, the reader satisfaction. I\u2019ve realized this of late because I\u2019m experiencing it.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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For the last few weeks (maybe less, come to think of it) I\u2019ve spent my little reading time finishing books that only somewhat hold appeal to me. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens<\/a> is great and all, but it\u2019s all taken from The Little White Bird<\/a>. The People of Sparks<\/a> is interesting, but it\u2019s not so fun (that’s just me whining, not a diss on the book). I do enjoy the feel of Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star<\/a>, but it\u2019s just too slow and unreasonable to me (yes, I’m whining again at a perfectly great book). Crime and Punishment<\/a> may change my way of thinking about justice when I\u2019m forty percent in, but here at 36%, it\u2019s still not caught my interest more than once per month.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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And then there\u2019s a whole slew of books I\u2019ve thought about reading. For a short while, the Alice in Wonderland<\/a> series seemed like a great set of works to read. I got to the viewing of the rabbit before stopping so as not to upset my low number of \u201ccurrently reading\u201d books. To be fair, that list of \u201ccurrently reading\u201d books is never so low and maybe shouldn\u2019t be held so low.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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But you know what? I\u2019m craving some of that wild hilarity of Terry Pratchett<\/a>\u2019s Discworld<\/a> when I began reading The Colour of Magic<\/a>. I crave to read the new melding together<\/a> of much of Terry Brooks<\/a>\u2019s writing worlds. I\u2019d like to enjoy Harry Potter<\/a> all over again without knowing every page before I turn to it. There are even one or two books that I\u2019d like to see if I enjoy them. So what\u2019s happened?<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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Well, I think I\u2019ve begun seeing how\u2026unprepared I am for my future and I\u2019ve moved into rush mode to try and create some sort of writing career for myself. Of course I want to write for a living, and yes, I\u2019d love to be published, and yes, I\u2019m working on a series whose first book I want to complete by December of this year. But maybe I\u2019m pushing myself just a little faster than I am used to. Not that I\u2019m used to a speed slower than that, but rather that I\u2019m trying to build a career of writing as an act of desperation to keep from needing to find \u201creal employment\u201d sometime in the next two years.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s kind of odd, actually. Over the last few years as the world economies have all faced near ruin, I have not worried because I have a well-paying job that I can keep until I graduate from college. This year I\u2019ve finally begun deciding that I need to\u2026take life a bit more\u2026seriously? And the result is that I\u2019m struggling to enjoy writing. For once in a LONG time, I\u2019m craving to read a whole lot more than I crave to write. For a person who is passionate about his own writing, that\u2019s really disturbing.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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Even more disturbing, I believe is the cause of it all. I have no published works yet (well, except a couple of poems for school and such), no fans or followers, I don\u2019t even have an entire book written (I thought I did before realizing that it\u2019s just the first portion of a book). And yet I\u2019m despairing and boring myself with the realization that I have nobody I truly see as a possible and reliable Alpha reader, no less multiple Alpha readers. I\u2019m trying to reach out and make connections with other authors and publishers and editors and what happens? Nothing.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m not despairing or depressed. I\u2019m just worried that one of my passions in life has taken such a turn towards\u2026boring. Sure, that happens with all kinds of dreams for all kinds of people, but I thought a true passion could never suffer such brutal tests of endurance.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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So what\u2019s the \u201cwar plan\u201d to defeat this Writer\u2019s Block-like infestation? Well, to go and write some more. Happy Writing everyone!<\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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