It has been a while since I sat and wrote my blog. The excuse? Maybe I needed robe motivated or just needed a break from everything to refocus. Anyway I'm back to hopefully to a more robust and regular schedule of blogging.
In the last part of September we were away on holiday and as part of them, I had a brilliant time reading. Stormy, wet weather lends itself very well to reading. It is something I love reading but I don't often do it when I'm working full time. I listen to music more than I read when I am working as my eyes get tired.
Anyway I always think of holidays as reading havens as it brings back memories of school holidays when I used to read five books at once. Maybe that why I'm good at multi-tasking or maybe it makes me a bit jumbled. While although I didn't read five books this holiday, I read two very different books. The first was KiwiTracks by Andrew Stevenson. As the book title suggests the book is about the author's four month journey through New Zealand. Reading about New Zealand always gives me a sense of homesickness, which is really odd for someone who has only been there for 3 weeks of her entire lives.But those three weeks changed me and the effect those three weeks had on my character and the direction in which I have taken my life is something I revisit from time to time. There is something of the independent traveller that should be experiened by everyone. Even if it is not to the other size of the world. Also I have a New Zealand connection in my novel that didn't make sense until the Holiday and reading the book.
The second book was Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, which has been in the bookcase since John Sergeant Talked about it on a programme about the greatest novels of the 20th Century. The characterisation of Yossarian and his commarates on the airbase is vey emotive. And as well as the humouristic view of life on base, the prose show the horrific reality of a bomber in WWII. The passion of the book entrancedme to finish it and I feel richer that I have finished it. A good writer needs to learn from books - something I intend to do more off. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene is next.
All the reading has reawaken my creative soul. There is pieces of chapters and new stories everywhere. I have pieces everywhere and realising how much prose there is in my flat. It has also brought to my attention that I have a note pad fetish. Whenever there is a new project or something I'm working on out comes a new notepad. I think I had bought a new notepad for the wedding before we had picked the engagement ring. Each notepad is also like a diary of what been going on and I like to look at them and find new pieces or things that I have forgotten I've written.
And this is where things are exciting, because I'm on this amazing journey at the moment both personal and hopefully in my creative live. I feel that my dreams are opening up and blossoming in front me. The next few months is going to be very exciting!!
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