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Are You Looking to Find and/or Make More Time to Read?
After numerous false starts, I found and made more time to read — and that’s been amazing.
As a child, I loved to read.
I think it was all the reading that I did as a kid that led me to become a writer. Ideas like — hey, I can do that, too — made me desire to write my own stories.
When I was 9, I wrote my first 50-page, illustrated sci-fi novel. Wildfire, apart from mentions here on this blog, will never see the light of day. But from a 9-year-old kid with an overactive imagination, it’s pretty awesome.
As I got older, I found it increasingly difficult to make time to read. For many years, I found myself reading far less than I preferred to.
After entering the workforce and finding various things to do in the evenings and the weekends after work, making time to read became increasingly challenging.
Overall, my focus tended towards making time to read at night. Nothing like reading before bed to calm down, relax, and reset at the end of the day.
Trouble is, when you have dates, fencing practices, game nights, and online and in-person conversations in the evening, making time to read can become untenable.
