We are still in the lazy, hazy days of summer, when many of us slow down, enjoy leisure pursuits and family visits, and generally put hard work on the back burner. My writing muse is still AWOL, but after more than twenty years and twenty novels, I figure a slowdown and a vacant brain are well deserved.
Ii'm not worried. I have been spending my leisure time reading, reading, and reading, sitting on my dock with my morning coffee, relaxing at bedtime, and even in the middle of the afternoon. Because the lazy, hazy slowdown of summer is the perfect time for pleasure reading. On the beach, on vacation, on a chaise longue in the shade of your backyard tree. Sprawled on the grass in the local park.
And we authors love this idea. We want everyone reading!
Here is a tongue-in-cheek message that is circulating on the internet, listing the ways in which everyone can help in this endeavour.
I can't think of anything better for an author to do during those inevitable lulls in writing. I devour books as if they were nourishing my body as well as my soul.
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