I'm pouring myself into reading lately, mostly for research purposes. I'm trying to learn what styles of writing/storylines are getting published these days. There's no pattern. Every single person writes differently. They use different grammar rules, different POVs... there's no rhyme or reason. Further evidence that getting published is greatly determined by who gets their hands on your manuscript, and when.
I hereby refuse to be discouraged by my own writing--what's the point??
There's a bigger benefit in being determined.
And now I'm addicted to checking books out at the library.
They make it too easy!! All I have to do is go online, search for a book I want to read, click REQUEST FIRST AVAILABLE COPY, and they email me when they set it aside. I mean, how sweet is that?
I think their system is just a bit wonky though, because often I will be #14 on the waiting list, but 3 days later I get an email that it's ready... and I never learn. Because I keep lining up all these books thinking I'll be covered over the next month with maybe a book a week. No. No. They are all ready at the same time, and now I have 6 books. How can I read 6 books before they are due???
I probably can't. But they look pretty stacked up on my table!
Are you also overwhelmed by your "to be read" pile? (Goodreads shows I have 153 books on my list... Since I average 5 a month, that ought to take me, oh, several YEARS to get through those plus all the new ones that come out)
