The author R.A Salvatore came to my attention during one of my many long conversations with my American roommate and best friend Aaron. To cope with all the books I had to read and wanted to buy, I made a list on my phone and alternated between the dusty novels of my backlog and newer purchases. I had rediscovered my love of fiction to the point that the musty vanilla scent of an old book would make me want to grind the pages up into lines of fine powder and snort them up my nose. In early 2017 my reading stamina really started to grow strong again. I’d get more reading done, and in less time an hour isn’t much in the context of a whole day, but it’s more than enough to get quite a lot of reading done- if that hour is focused and free of distractions. And the way to do that is to set aside a dedicated reading time that is free of distractions. I’m glad the writing has been going well, but I need to improve my relationship with books. But that experience has given me some good perspective I realized that seeing reading as something to squeeze in at some vague point in the future was not good enough. I should have finished reading R.A Salvatore’s high fantasy hack n’ slash about a month ago, but once I started writing my novel, my rate of pages-read-per-day dropped significantly. It’s a skill I want to improve, but I feel like I’m wired in some way to be consumed by a singular focus.

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