Writers read. To become a writer, you must have read first. When you're a writer, you want people to read your stuff!
I got a YA novel by Rick Riordan the other day (The Lost Hero, I'm sorry I'm not reading anyone on AW or any small writers, I still need that darned Kindle and I don't know how I'm going to get it with my darned parents, but... that's all different and not the point of this thread) and I'm hating the sight of it. It doesn't interest me, it annoys me with the reading style. It doesn't draw me in.
So, I find myself re-reading Gone With the Wind instead of YA, which is focus for my novel.
I feel like I can't open my mind to new things anymore. I'm picky and I only trust books that I've already ventured into. I'm halfway in The Lost Hero, don't say I judged the book. I have Great Expectations halfway done, but I know I'm going to read that.
I have a beta read that I hope to finish within the weekend, but it's YA and I'm afraid to read it. I don't know what to do.
I got a YA novel by Rick Riordan the other day (The Lost Hero, I'm sorry I'm not reading anyone on AW or any small writers, I still need that darned Kindle and I don't know how I'm going to get it with my darned parents, but... that's all different and not the point of this thread) and I'm hating the sight of it. It doesn't interest me, it annoys me with the reading style. It doesn't draw me in.
So, I find myself re-reading Gone With the Wind instead of YA, which is focus for my novel.
I feel like I can't open my mind to new things anymore. I'm picky and I only trust books that I've already ventured into. I'm halfway in The Lost Hero, don't say I judged the book. I have Great Expectations halfway done, but I know I'm going to read that.
I have a beta read that I hope to finish within the weekend, but it's YA and I'm afraid to read it. I don't know what to do.