I Can’t Stop Reading: Intervention!

What do you do when you have writing to do, but you can’t put down your e-reader? I’m lost in a sea of other indie romance writer’s words. I need an intervention. This afternoon my plan is to write, but even now other books are staring at me, drawing me in.

Once I find an author, I’m working through the entire book, but I don’t know if it’s lack of will-power or whether I’m procrastinating. All in know is I’m all about books.

The way to justify it is to look at it as a learning lesson, after all, they say you can’t be a writer if you don’t read, and boy do I read. But with every book I learn something, and I know it makes me a better writer.

I like to think that as a romance writer reading other romance books helps me to absorb their talent through my eyeball. I am not rationalising. It could be true. But if not, then there are some actual skills that can be learned from reading.

You can encourage inspiration and imagination, you learn what works and what doesn’t, you take in word choices, quotes, descriptions.

Still, it is an issue, that at the moment, rather than write, I read, because my shifter book is waiting to be finished, my characters are waiting to have their story told, and I’m too busy reading about other writer’s shifters to tell it.

I think I need someone to come and take the books from my hands and hide them from me. But then the reason I’m a writer is because I love to read, so maybe I should just continue.