I'm currently in a book coma. You know...that feeling you have after finishing a book and still think you are inside it. This coma is terrible this time because the book ended at this nasty cliff-hanger (which I also like doing to my readers, so I guess this is karma). So in short I have been walking around, red eyed clutching the book to me.
It reminds me of the last hangover I had last summer, which was with The Hunger Games. I wouldn't walk out of the house without a purse or a backpack packed with a few survival items. Which happened to be the three books, a pen, notebook, wallet, phone, child scissors (you know those plastic ones-which I still managed to hurt myself with) and of course....granola bars. As if I was going to be tossed into the arena. (Yes- I was late coming to this series. Being a literary major and having to read three novels a week for different classes *no I'm really not joking, literally three a week* I was very burnt out of books. And writing for that instance because I had finished my second thesis for my paleontology class over the Symmetry of Echinoderms).
This weeks book coma is brought to you by, Insurgent by Veronica Roth. And I've been pleading with my cousins and boyfriend to start reading the series. Thankfully my sister as read them as well. funny story is we both fought over the book at the bookstore and wound up getting two.
I have a hard time stepping out of book comas. I know when Harry Potter was coming out I would stay awake reading it the night I got it until I drained every word in the book into my mind and walked around like a zombie from lack of sleep and from the feeling of needing to read more.
Wait....they should call us Book Zombies. Because we feed on books and once they feed us more, we have an even larger desire to read more books! Maybe instead of the Page Girl...I should be Book Zombie. Its an accurate representation of at least me. I write books staying up all night, forgetting to read, sleep and eat. Then I read books for a break, or at least my own work and that gives me the juice to continue.
Next time you see me I'll be walking around going "Booksssss....Bookzzzz!" Then "Nom" on the library bookshelf.
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So today I know I did not have any writing advice...just a ramble about book comas. Tomorrows post will be eventful because I'm spending my coma day looking for Literary Agents! Oh what fun it is to write, a query's a long day! Query's are hard and it feels like you justice doing your book justice and you start to panic because you are afraid of rejection because you really suck at writing query's. Like me, who is in panic mode. Its very scary that you are sending your book out in the real world. Because it is your baby and you have watched it grow before your very eyes. And now it is time to send it off into the real world. This must be how my mother feels when I was like..."bye going to learn things!" then rushed off to college and sucked out life's knowledge.Anyways- yes...panic Ashley is going to keep on trucking through my query and agent listings. Keeping my fingers crossed and singing, "When you Wish Upon a Star".
-The Page Girl

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