Are You Reading for Pleasure? Or Reading to Write? By Connie Vines #RoundRobin, #WritingLife, WhatAreYouReading?

Topic: How much reading do you do, both for pleasure and for a work in progress? 

This month's topic required a bit of pondering on my part.

While I'd like to happily confess to reading only for pleasure, this is no longer true.

I read one or two books a week in genre fiction (not the genre of my current WIP) for pleasure. In years past the number of novels, I would read solely for pleasure numbered one or two each day. 

Sigh. 

Publishing has changed; authors have (sort of) adapted.

More and more of an author's day is spent on promotion via social media, developing book trailers, book covers, contests, and cross-promotion projects.

Egad!  

Unfortunately, this leaves less and less time for writing ✍ and even less time for sleeping 😴

🕵Here's the pondering I mentioned at the start of this post:  most of my reading falls into these categories: 

• Research for my WIP.

• The craft of writing. 

• Promotion, promotion, and more promotion.

All of my novels and novellas have recipes included; recipes that I have adapted from family recipes or are my personal favorites. Therefore, I have no one to blame but myself for this foray into kitchen time!!  🥣🥄🍲🍪 

Happy Reading,

Connie

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Visit the talented authors participating in this month"s Round Robin Blog Hop!  

Marci Baun http://www.marcibaun.com/blog/ 

 Connie Vines http://mizging.blogspot.com/ 

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 Diane Bator http://dbator.blogspot.ca/ 

 Skye Taylor http://www.skye-writer.com/blogging_by_the_sea 

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