The Realm and the Writer

Have your book-tastes changed over the years? More fiction? Less? Books that are darker and more serious? Lighter and more frivolous? Challenging? Easy? How-to books over novels? Mysteries over Romance?

I can't really say that my tastes have changed, they have more or less evolved. I still read the same genres yet tend to steer myself towards deeper works and read through pieces that have a greater impact on my writing styles. For example, I have gone from a juvenile stage of reading the Scary Stories series to reading H.P. Lovecraft.



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Why does my love deny me so.
It leaves me lost,
in an overwhelming seas of despair.

His smile,
It lifts up my soul.
As if towards heaven.

An eternity of yearning,
recognized only by this weight.
So uncomfortable to bear.

Forever in wanting.
Forever I'll wait.

It's been quite some time since I've written a StumbleUpon post and todays Heads Or Tails challenge has given me the opportunity for some great stumbles. Todays challenge is 'royal' and can be interpreted anyway you pleas. It may conjure up images of castles and opulently dressed maidens or it may stir a visualization of vivid blues and graceful butterflies.

My first amazing stumble brings us to this beautiful piece of art by David Edwards. Please click the image for a larger view.

I also stumbled upon the Kingdomality Medieval Vocational Personality Test (boy that's a mouth full). I received The Benevolent Ruler as my Vocational Personality. Please, take the test and post your results as a comment! Perhaps we can create our own little kingdom!




If you'd like to participate in todays and future Heads or Tails challenges, please click the image below.

1. Gossiping :: Gander
2. Misplaced :: Keys
3. Spaceship :: Captain
4. Ignore :: Me
5. Bodily :: Fluids
6. Tweezers :: weezers
7. Goodnight :: Moon
8. Curls :: Hair
9. Faucet :: Farrah
10. Right? :: Wrong


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What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which of these is reading these days? Are they all reading? Only some of them? What are your personal qualifications for something to be “reading” — why? If something isn’t reading, why not? Does it matter? Does it impact your desire to sample a source if you find out a premise you liked the sound of is in a format you don’t consider to be reading? Share your personal definition of reading, and how you came to have that stance.

Reading encompasses all of the above examples. To 'read' is to comprehend any collection of written words. I've come to know that reading everything and anything is the key to becoming a better writer. I thank my college English professors for this bit of wisdom.



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