For the past three months, I’ve been working on an R&R for an agent.
In part this has been to improve my novel’s wordcount.
Tag Archives: Books
The Purpose of Writing
Is art—in particular, writing—meant to be representative or aspirational?
On Twitter, where I admittedly spend more time than is probably recommended, the issue of representative vs. aspirational writing comes up often, if not necessarily using these exact terms.
The Many Ways of Reading a Book
I recently learned that some readers start a new book by first reading the end.
To clarify, I’d always heard that some people do this.
However, it wasn’t until I read the comments on a recent Twitter post about content/trigger warnings vs. spoilers in books and whether they represent the same thing that I came to realize just how many people do this, and also some of the reasons why.
On Becoming a Well-Read Slow Reader
Can a lifelong slow reader nonetheless become a well-read one?
For 2021, I’ve once again signed up for the Goodreads reading challenge.
Recent Reads – January to April 2020: On Good Reads vs. Should Reads
Recent Reads – August to December 2019 (pt.2): Mixed Reviews, Mixed Feelings, and the Scale of My Indecision
Last week, I wrote about how I don’t often give books five-star ratings.
Even less often do I give one-star.
Recent Reads – August to December 2019 (pt.1): A Five-Star Extravaganza
I’ve mentioned before how I review every book that I read.
It surely goes without saying that I love writing five-star reviews best of all.
Recent Reads – April to July 2019
The hardest part about reading is knowing when to stop.
This is obviously true when a gripping story threatens to keep you up well past your bedtime. And all the more so in the midst of a book that is decidedly opposite to that.
Recent Reads – January to March 2019
Five years ago, I wrote a post on how to read 12 books in a year.
Twelve books a year doesn’t trouble me anymore, but it did at the time. I found myself floundering beneath the burden of various competing obligations, some mandatory, some discretionary, and that reading, my oldest pastime, had fallen far by the wayside.
Recent Reads – November to December 2018
Renowned horror/supernatural/spec fic author Stephen King famously claimed the following:
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
He’s right in more ways than one. The tools that reading has to offer are numerous.
A Frame Around Infinity 