Read. Write. Learn. Repeat.

When is enough, enough?

I want to look at how I balance my time between Reading, Writing, and learning. As I do all three but the book I so desire to want to write is nowhere to be seen. I have spent 30 years stuck in the repeat cycle.

So, I want to be a writer. Not just a writer, a published author. I try and combine a variety of reading, writing, and learning about the craft and tools of writing.

Does a writer’s organisation, content, methods, volume and commitment of reading, writing and learning have a magic measure? (A successful outcome to those non-fairy dust believers!) That when balanced correctly, writing a book can be achieved?

Read.

One of my hobbies growing up was reading. I was always at my local library loaning out the maximum number of books possible. I would gorge myself on anything and everything. From the Beano, , Enid Blyton, , Roald Dahl, , to Anne Frank. I was (and still am!) very happy when I have my nose in a book. I was always at my local library loaning out the maximum number of books possible. People have often asked what I love most about books throughout my life. I had not realised until my late twenties, that what I loved about fiction books was the Alice-in-wonderland pure rabbits-hole of escapism. The unadulterated emersion into a story, the characters, their lives, the who-done-it and the twists and turns. I have often been asked what I was thinking about, nine times out of…