Reading On Writing

In his missive penned to those who would follow in his footsteps,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King writes that one serious about writing should also be serious about reading. He suggests splitting the day: 4 hours for writing, 4 for reading. I think I have no problem with the 4 hours for reading part. My issue is coming up with the hours for writing.

I thought I would be able to get some done this evening over at our closest internet-enabled coffee shop. After all:

Here at the Muddy Cup, we try to offer our community a place to go to share their art, their voice, and their opinions on life and the world.

The only problem is that there are other people around working on various projects. This is, unfortunately, most distracting at this stage of the process where I am shifting gears from writing the scaffolding words to the fleshy parts. I think I am going to have to do the heavy lifting on the afternoon train home.




Along the lines of using this project to get "over" myself, I've posted a paragraph excerpt on my NaNoWriMo page here. As I've mentioned before, the site is really slow because of it being, er... National Novel Writing Month and all, but if you can stand to look, feedback is always welcome.