Dropping In
An exercise
Our daughter has lately been singing the praises of Aleksander Tisma, and recommending that I read his novel The Book of Blam. I’m in a busy phase and so the other day, to convince me to get going, she said, “Just read these three pages.” And I did, and now I can’t wait, once this busy period subsides, to read the book.
And I thought, “How interesting, that reading just three pages of this book has pushed it to the front of my ‘To Read’ pile and, in fact, I feel that I now have a little treasure awaiting me.”
It also made me excited to go in the next morning and get to work. It made me feel (those mere three pages did): “Oh, wow, yes: fiction is magical. I want to try writing some.”