they say a picture is worth 1000 words, so here, have 5000 words.
the end.
Category: general
after exerciser
during one of the many tangents us book hungry gals get on, kelly and i were talking about exercising and how we don’t necessarily like the act of exercising, but we LOVE the endorphin rush once we’re done.
which got me thinking about writing.
(i know, i know. i’ve been thinking about writing more than i’ve actually been writing.) (wow, look at me, i’m procrastinating!) (can you believe it, mom?)
if i’m a person who gets a rush AFTER THE FACT, how am i supposed to get that from writing? i mean, there’s a lot of time involved before one reaches THE END. more time than a marathon, so how can i sustain that level of intensity without any reward?
how do YOU do it?
(tee hee)
how do you sustain a certain level of productivity when it’s nearly impossible to see the finish line?
holiday weekend
mine was filled with family, friends, food, and a healthy dash of silliness.
how about yours?
reading style
earlier this week, i received an email from a coworker’s brother.
said coworker has been out of the country visiting that brother and i’ll admit it, my heart stopped when i realized who the email was from. i was so nervous to read the letter (because it could only contain bad news, right? why else was he contacting me?), i processed only about every fourth word of the email. i was skipping and searching and looking for the bad news.
it took about three read-throughs until i understood the gist of the email, which was that there was plane trouble in amsterdam and coworker would not be back to work thursday, but rather friday.
phew.
but the way i read that email got me thinking, because i’m normally a very through reader. i don’t often skim, as i like to savor the words and the worlds and the characters and the stories i’m reading. even work emails. i don’t want to miss anything important.
that said, i did find myself skimming through a series recently. a very popular series that i never should have read and never would have read if it wasn’t to satisfy my curiosity as to why EVERYONE was reading it. the writing was bad, the characters flat, and the situations disturbing (to me at least), but the first book ends on a cliffhanger and i’d made it that far i had to know what happened next, so i read the second one, and hell, i’d read that far, i might as well finish the dang series.
it wasn’t worth much more than a quick read through because a lot of what goes on is repetitive and if you breeze through, you won’t miss anything, which only reinforced my decision to read without paying much attention. i don’t like that i did it because everything i read (good, bad, mediocre) is a learning tool and i fear i raced too fast through that lesson.
(don’t make me go back through it again! nooooooooo!)
have you found yourself skimming through anything lately or do you take your time when reading? or perhaps you’re a constant skimmer and so you re-read things in order to make sure you digest them properly? why do you skim? or if you’re on the other side, why do you rarely skim? do you like skim milk? how about skim boarding? how many other ways can i use the word skim?
guest post: internet
i LOVE it that you come here to read my words, but today, let’s have a look at some of the awesome that’s available in other areas of the interwebs. (don’t worry, all but one of these are short and sweet and worth the click.)
close the door by aidan donnelley rowley
what’s your new dream by lindsey leavitt (warning: long.)
day 8 by adriana kirilova
one of the cutest things you’ve ever seen from tahereh mafi’s tumblr
on inspiration by bria quinlan
caffeine in art form from tumblr
a chinese translation from k.marie criddle
the engineering of a wish by kristen munson
advice on not giving up (framed as writerly advice, but valid at any point in your life) by tawna fenske
day 3 by adriana kirilova
do you have any favorite sites i should visit?
Abigail Mumford 