Story Sponge

[cair_anam]

People tell me that they wished they read as fast as I do. I read something on the order of 400+ books a year, counting repeats. Part of that is speed and part of that is just the voracious nature of my appetite for books. I read all the time. I read when I'm eating breakfast. I read while I walk to work. (not while I drive, but then I listen to

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[ninniane]

Telling stories is empty at best without someone to hear them. The world needs people like you (and me) to hold those stories in our hearts and love them. Otherwise the tellers would be talking to the air. My students are supposed to spend 15 minutes a day in class reading independently. They resist it with all their might. They hate it. I don't understand this at all; those 15 minutes are the best ones of my day. I made it through 150 pages of The Dark Tower #6 - Song of Susannah today in about 75 minutes. My students think I'm crazy.

[myrddyn]

I, too, am more of an absorber. I would love to be able to write some of the things that come into my mind (one of which you helped to create :), but they always sound wrong when I write them

[sciron666]

I think we both know that I don't absorb books so much as awaken from a slumber every so often and consume one and then go on for a dry spell of about 6 months. However, I always have stories in my head but no way to finish any of them. I'll juts start sending you outlines - you can have as much fun with them as you want :) Everything's a give and take. You know, that whole yin/yang thing

[satyagraha101]

i would say...the stories you absorb only matter insofar as you matter.

:)