Reading and Writing More

I've had problems with my eye sight lately; and so I was off to the optometrist to get it looked into. He took a look and said my lenses needed upgrading; so after 2 weeks, I've got new lenses in my Ginsberg frames and a whole new set for my computer... and I'm reading so much better and have jumped right in and started writing so much more too.

I've been knocking over about 10 pages of 'Born to Run' by Bruce Springsteen over the past few days each time I've sat down to read... and it feels great to get in and do that.

And it's not only the reading I'm getting back into. My writing of books and Flash Fiction is getting back up there as well. I've been flying through almost 2,000 words with each writing session; and my goal is 1,000 words a session... soon I'll be reaching 3,000 words a session instead; which is great! 

If only my typing could keep up with my brain - now that'd be a new one!

I've also been cleaning out the bookshelves and making them look like a library by standing the books on their ends instead of laying them on their sides - which is bad for them. They look so much better and the home office is really looking so much more like a library than ever before. There's still a fair bit more to go, but I can find my sections better and am having a few teething problems with it still. But it'll get there in a few months once it's figured out. Until my next post, happy reading. 

New Glasses!

In recent months, my eyes have been giving me problems. I've found they're tired all the time, watering and in the past month, I've had a really annoying lower-lid eye twitch! That last one, I thought was from stress, but I went to my optometrist and he told me it was from not having the right lenses for reading and computer work.

He had a good look at my eyes and nodded, yep, I needed new reading glasses. I told him that I love the frames I've got, and to keep them, but the lenses were to be upgraded. He said it's good I love the frames of my Ginsberg ones.

He asked me what I've been reading and I told him 'Born To Run' by Bruce Springsteen, and he said that it must be a great read, I agreed, and said it'll be a better read once I get my glasses sorted. 

The best thing is that I don't need driving glasses - yet - and he filled out my medical certificate for me while I was there. I told him that I bought myself some Cancer Council polarised sunglasses for Christmas, and he said that they're the best ones - and asked if I bought black ones or brown ones; and I said brown. He told me it takes time to get accustomed to the brown lenses, but they're the better ones for us as they're less strain on our eye sight. 

So, in about a week or so, I'll have new lenses in my glasses, a new pair of computer glasses, still have my Ginsberg cats eye glasses and have a lens upgrade on both... great! I can't wait to get back into 'Born To Run'; I'll be reading that book a lot faster than before. 

Do you wear glasses? Until my next post, happy reading!

I'm Writing Again!

I'm writing another book!

Woah, it's been years since I started writing an actual book at a time when it's not NaNoWriMo and really wanted to keep on going with it.

Currently, I'm up to chapter four and am getting into it properly... and the best thing is that I'm not doing any violence, vampire or horror. Nope, it's going to be a book about the travels and life of a person with great descriptions and beautiful scenes captured within the pages. 

This it the type of book I've wanted to write for some time now; and it's been a long time coming. But the main problem I had was that I didn't know what the book was going to be about - not until I found myself grieving over a close friends' suicide over the past week and I was in front of my computer late one night and I opened a new folder on a thumb drive and started at 'Chapter One', where my character was in grieving.

It's going to be a great book, but as with all my books, I'm not sure where it's going to take me. It's a path untaken as well; with me not scaring people or myself. Now, to write something about the deep feelings and thoughts of the Human mind... wouldn't that be a wonderful book to get into and succeed at writing? I hope it will be.