Does reading count?
Let me start with the excuses: I have to work full-time this month (in my other life as a teacher) and it’s teens, not adults - spending all day with eighteen Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese kids is fun, satisfying, rewarding and all that, but doesn’t leave much energy left for writing.
But I am trying to read more systematically, and after reading more from Sol Stein I’m also reading more critically and analytically. And with the Perth International Arts Festival’s Writers’ Week coming up, I’ve booked into a few readings and other presentations from writers and I’m busily reading what they’ve written: at the moment it’s Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep: A Novel
And I’m getting my talented artistic husband to create a big sign for the fridge saying “Amanda will write a novel in 2007″ so that all my friends and family will know. Now I just need to do it. Nine days down, 356 to go.
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