Demesnedenoir
Myth Weaver
I've now found that I can read again... to a point, with this caveat: Only when I am not in full editor mode for my own work. When I'm in edit mode, forget it. Right now I am revising but off of an editor's notes (rather than self-editing) and while trying to incorporate a few beta reader notes. So, my brain is now able to read a book more or less for entertainment. Ok, more like a story-editor, I'm ignoring the little things, even flat-out mistakes, and reading to see how or if the story works.
An assist to this, I am beta reading a novel strictly for characterization, story, and all that, rather than for those other things that would slow my reading down. Mind you, I am reading this in a no edit mode to keep me from marking it up! LOL. But so far so good.
And I am trying to make it through a Sanderson novel while keeping my editor brain off, looking more at story points rather than the stuff that usually trips me up trying to read. It's a challenge, his writing is decent with flashes of very good and very ugh. But I persevere on the assumption that there is a reason for his success in storytelling and I am not going to get what that is without finishing, LOL.
Ever read the same again? Nope, haven't been able to do that for probably 25 years, but I'm doing better at it now than at any point in those years, where I've pretty much stuck to history if reading.
An assist to this, I am beta reading a novel strictly for characterization, story, and all that, rather than for those other things that would slow my reading down. Mind you, I am reading this in a no edit mode to keep me from marking it up! LOL. But so far so good.
And I am trying to make it through a Sanderson novel while keeping my editor brain off, looking more at story points rather than the stuff that usually trips me up trying to read. It's a challenge, his writing is decent with flashes of very good and very ugh. But I persevere on the assumption that there is a reason for his success in storytelling and I am not going to get what that is without finishing, LOL.
Ever read the same again? Nope, haven't been able to do that for probably 25 years, but I'm doing better at it now than at any point in those years, where I've pretty much stuck to history if reading.