Additions....Healing? (11/12/2012 12:13)

So I've been desperately trying to stay away from erotica, the verbal, written, and visual. In most parts there has been great success. The strategy was or is to stay as far away from it as is possible. Because I am or was in the constant habit reading and critiquing them, it is easy to discern if a  book or novel is of the genre in the first lines or page. With this and the turning away from sensually, sexual depictions and staying far from acquaintances and colleague who are enticed by things of the sort, and with heavy doses of prayer and supplication has the temptation been dulled and set down.

Today, however, I picked up and read the first thirty-three pages of a Nora Roberts book fully well knowing that it was romance (also a weakness) and I enjoyed it in innocence  It didn't give me the urge to have more of it. The urge I got was to read more. There is something about reading suspense, thrillers, and detective that captures me and there is something about writing as well that entangles me. I think the major aspect was that the two main characters were writers: one a fiction writer focusing on horror; and the other a magazine writer with the desire to write fiction. It felt good reading about us, having our quirks, differences, feelings validated. Writing fulfills my every desire. I think :-)

11/12/2012 12:34