Comments on: Reading & Writing

By: TheNightPoet

TheNightPoet — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:35:52 +0000

Claudia, you know this is the second non-school book I have read while still in the semester. (The Devil Who Tamed Her, that is) I read Christine Feehan’s Dark Possession over Fall Break and that’s all I’ve read. lol This semester I’ve wanted so many times to pick up a romance book and start reading it, but I haven’t been able to because of my homework load and the readings I have had to do for my classes. I’m so looking forward to Friday of next week when I can pull out all the books I’ve wanted to read over the semester, pick one out of the pile, and then read over Christmas break to my hearts content.

Andrea

By: alarwyn

alarwyn — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:26:10 +0000

I’m an IV personality all the way. I’m multitasking ALL THE TIME (even now) but unfortunately, it doesn’t mean that things get finished any faster they would if I was a gulper or a sipper, I just have more stuff to do all the time. The sad truth is that most of the time things don’t get done just because I find something more interesting/easier/more urgent to do and the thing I was first working on is put aside for a while. For a long while, in some cases.

By: darkshire007

darkshire007 — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:43:10 +0000

First off, I don’t write. I’m terrible at it. Secondly, I am a voracious reader. I have books all over the house that I’m reading all at the same time; just depends on which room I’m in. Whatever book is in that room is the one I read while doing whatever it is I’m doing (laundry, vacuuming, dusting, cleaning windows). It takes effort to put a book down to watch the TV for the news. I could happily get rid of my television but my husband would be upset.

By: Judy

Judy — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:49:36 +0000

I used to be a sipper…and then I became an intravenous reader…and after that I became a gulper. Which is to say that before school started, I was a sipper, but I’d read a book a day or two, and then start the next one. And then I knew school was gonna start so I started reading multiple books at once, an hour of this, an hour of that. And then school started, I became a gulper. I’d read one book in a weekend, then I took a break to write essays and study for midterms, and then when there was a lag in my schedule, read another book and start the cycle again. So glad this semesters over.

I currently started reading Lynsay Sands [b]Love is Blind[/b] I’m new to Lynsay Sands. But I’m loving her, she is refreshing. Can’t wait to start her vampire series!

And to answer the million dollar question, Claudia, I’d say you can, I did it, though I do admit it was unconscious, but hey sometimes you have to adapt to your surroundings.

By: Dot C

Dot C — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:08:52 +0000

I gulp, consistently. I’ll have a dvd spurt…right now I’m watching the second season of 21 Jumpstreet
I saw something today that made me laugh outloud. In Walmart, and then again in CVS I saw a musical and motion holiday decoration. It was a deranged, crack headish looking reindeer on a rocking horse that, when you pushed his button rocked back and forth maniacally and sang “Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer”. I stood there, mouth agape, until the whole song finished. It sucked my brain out! Then, when it was quiet again, I thought of the person in this forum that couldn’t stand that song, and had a hearty chuckle. It made me think about how everyone at some time has their own personal vision of hell!!!!
J/K, merry christmas to all!
I don’t write anything except blogs and professional correspondences, so I can’t really comment on the writing part. I’ll leave the romance writing to the lovely ladies in here that do great at it!
Dot

By: Claudia Dain

Claudia Dain — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:08:24 +0000

Oh, ladydawg, you have my heartfelt sympathy on the book that is causing you such grief. I’ve had my share of those!

Karen R, I knew there was some missing piece in me: Tab. I’ve never liked the taste of Tab. I’m sure this is the source of all my sipping problems.

By: ladydawgfan

ladydawgfan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:21:54 +0000

I am a definite IV reader!!! I have to have a book with me everywhere I go, even if there is little chance of me actually reading it!! And sometimes I even take more than one on the off-chance that I finish the first one before I get home! I tell ya, I’m absolutely hopeless on this one!!

As for writing, it depends on what I am working on. I have gulped my way through several papers for school, including one that my muse had pouring out of me in about an hour (we discussed the particulars of it while I was in the shower that morning!). Kinda cool how that happens. Unfortunately, with my WIP, sipping doesn’t quite describe the experience. I am more likely licking a photo of the keyboard than I am doing any actual “sipping!” But I am finding my way through it, I know where it wants to go, and I have hope that it will eventually be finished. Here’s to the hope that never dies!!!

By: Karen Rose

Karen Rose — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:35:17 +0000

Kay – you’ll be first in line as one of my key advisors

I’ve seen the mocked up artwork and it is AWESOME!!!!

By: Karen Rose

Karen Rose — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:34:24 +0000

I’m telling you, Claudia, it’s the TAB. Nectar of the goddesses.

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:14:01 +0000

I am a gulper when I read or write. I must have hours of uninterrupted tome to get through either!

That’s why I do so much reading or writing at night. LOL

I’m taking two days off from writing to read and it is heaven!

Karen R, I can’t wait to see SCREAM FOR ME in print.