I don't know if I can ever write like I used to given the circumstances, but I'm going to try. At this point in my life I want to try and take in more information in the form of reading. Movies are great, but I want to read. Maybe it will improve my writing? I'm reading this book right now and I am heavily critical of it. I want to think I could write and be just as interesting or more so than the author. Who am I to take someone's work and be so critical of it? I'm just some guy with no qualifications. Sure, I've taken some creative writing courses in high school and college, but when do you get to a point where your opinion is considered reputable? I'm lucky the author is someone I like and is writing to the target audience of preteens. I'm happier about the latter especially because I am more able to read it carefully and correctly.
I struggle a lot with reading but I feel a sense of purpose when I finish a chapter or just flip to a new page. If that is work then I want to work there. I want to try and start reading roughly one book per month. I'm not for sure how I feel about the aforementioned October book I'm reading now. I think I like it so far but I need to know how it ends. I do know that I don't want to write about my thoughts and comments on it until I finish it. I feel like I'm back in middle school while reading this book. I fit the target audience except I'm fifteen years or so above it. One thing I will say is that I'm pretty sure I already know what I physically want to do with the book. My family is full of men and boys that are either current or former boy scouts, which is the same as most characters in the book. I'm hoping if I gift this book and they do decide to read it, they will like it as much as I have so far.
I think the book isn't very predictable. I'm roughly 75% of the way through it and I can honestly say that I don't know what is left in the other 25%. I'm not sure if that makes for good writing or not? Should the author be leaving you with enough clues and foreshadowing so that you can guess what is coming next? Or is it a better book when you don't know what to expect? It depends on the book I guess. I'm happy to be back reading and writing. Hopefully I will have more specific, positive things to say about the book. I'm not sure if I will post again without having finished it, but we'll see how it goes.
