Date Archives September 2018

DEAR DIARY – Why Don’t I Feel Like Reading or Writing?

I’ve been having a hard time reading and writing. Especially when all I think about nowadays is publishing my book. It’s a combination of various factors I believe, I’ve been super busy at work with my product’s SQA process. My 2-hour commute home and the unavailability of books I want to read at my local bookstore chain isn’t helping either. I mean come on Liberty Books, how difficult it is to stock up Liane Moriarty books? And why would you guys take so much of time to get Lethal White into the country? Even Pyjamas are Forgiving is taking time to cross the border!

This year brought a revelation that I never expected from someone like me. I want to work for myself. May be it was hitting the big 30 that surfaced this thought. But lately, I have been craving to set up my own business but that is a talk for another day.

The fact that my 3rd attempt at taking my family for a vacation just went down-under might have to do a lot with this feeling of “Blah”. But together all these feelings and my erratic schedule has been making it harder and harder for me to really get into a book. Not to mention, its been a month since I last penned something.

I do have a Goodreads Reading Challenge set for myself but I don’t believe in pressurizing myself into reading X number of books in year or stick to X number of reading hours per day. In fact, I believe in taking quick breaks between books or even a week or two but not being able to get into the habit of reading for sometime has me concerned.

Moreover nothing has inspired me to write or piqued my interest to delve into its abyss and revel in its glory. Even right now, writing this mediocre post is not satisfying me in any way. I don’t even know what to say.

Perhaps this post won’t even see daylights of the Internet and remain hidden among other drafts of my blog. Or may be getting it out there will help me get over my reading-slump and my writer’s block.

I am not even sure what to do about it, so I’ve chosen to just ramble on and send out a plea to the cosmos. Perhaps help will soon be on its way!

So until, I regain my jam, here’s to the love of the written word,

Cheers!