LEE HALLISON

Reading

Ha, just realized my list of “Books I’m Reading” hasn’t changed in quite a while. I should retitle it to say “Books On My Nightstand,” since I seem to have stopped reading – at least stopped reading novels and non-fiction.

Hard to imagine – I have been a bookworm my whole life. But with all the writing and revising of my own work, and all the critting, (reading others’ drafts), and the research (reading stories in magazine’s I’m targeting with my own fiction), I’ve pretty much lost my energy/appetite for novels.

What about you? Are you finding it hard to keep up with your reading?

Writing Update

I’m still writing a flash story every week (thanks to Liberty Hall Writers Group) but also have begun to send at least one of my stories out every week. I joined the Write1Sub1 challenge and just knowing I’ll be reporting to the other participants has been enough of a push to help me get the stories sent out.

After over a year of a story a week, needless to say I have a large collection! Most of them are very rough drafts, since I’ve done them in an hour or hour 1/2. Revising can take me a while – and it’s still so hard to say, “yes it is done” & push the submit button.

Life is still too busy but I’m finding great satisfaction in my writing. Enjoying all the folks I’ve met in the past two years. There’s a great community of writers connecting via the internet – it’s not such a lonely career any more.