Reading
I am taking a very brief vacation, not far from home, and not doing much. But reading. For fun. I finished a novel yesterday and read a quick novella this morning, and am now a chapter into another novel. And already I’m feeling re-energized in the way that immersion in other people’s awesome writing does for me: I want to write.
I don't have a writing project in front of me right now, purposefully so. I promised myself almost exactly a year ago, after finishing the revisions on Leading Generously (out in October and now available for preorder!), that I would take at least a year and just read, holding off on thinking about a new project until I was really certain I had something worth saying that was burning to said.
I'm still not there -- I've got a lot of little thoughts tumbling around but without real connection or direction as yet -- so the reading is going to continue. But I'm hoping that the writing might begin to coalesce as well, that the energy I'm feeling generated by the reading I'm doing might manifest itself in the making of sentences and paragraphs if not full arguments.
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