I’m trying to remember how to write. I know I just have to keep up doing it to get the stream of conscious flow back. It’s mainly the loss of long form writing as there is a pressure to write something short and catchy cause no one has an attention span left. I know I don’t. I try to think about long text stuff I read that isn’t a short tweet or meme and I guess it’s a Wikipedia entry. That’s disgraceful.
But maybe that’s just it. To write long form, you need to consume long form. I can’t remember the last book I read front to back. I’m sure everyone went through the phase of trying to read a book off a Kindle or iPad–thinking it was a good idea and then quickly falling off. I find I value digital media less than physical media which could be the old man in me. Then again whatever works works so maybe I should use Amazon to buy a book instead of cheap gym shorts.
Fiction or non-fiction? That is the question. I like reading non-fiction but I would want to write fiction. What’s that all about? I guess the only fiction I want to read are the classics and that would be a good start. I can read pretty fast off a screen so I wonder how long it would take me to crush a book.
Ok. That’s what I’m going to do. Make a list of books I want to read this summer and read them. Pretty lame but it’s probably slightly healthier than playing video games all summer. Let’s just start with 1 book and it can be fiction or non-fiction–I just need to read it. Which book?
I’ll think about it for the rest of the evening and hopefully tomorrow I can start reading.