I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and it’s really helped me fall in love with reading again. Even though I can go online and play games and watch movies on it, I’m spending most of my time on it reading. It’s definitely a tablet made for people that love reading.
It’s been amazing to have an unlimited number of books available to me and it really suits my tendency to read three or four books at a time. At the moment I’m working through Book One of The Awakened by Jason Tesar, volume one of The Harvard Classics and Grace Abounding To The Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan.
None of those are affiliate links, by the way. Mainly because two of them are free and one of them is a buck. So nobody is really making money there. Anyway, it’s all got me thinking about stories and what Don Miller explored in A Million Miles In A Thousand Years.
I’m reading all these amazing stories and I’m wondering what part of the story I’m in right now. Am I in that bit of the book just before a story begins? Am I in the backstory? Where significant things happen but you only find out about them through snippets when you’re reading the story proper?
What should I be focusing my attentions on right now? Basically, I’m at a bit of a cross-roads so maybe I’m at the part of the story where the protagonist reaches the point of needing to make a decision that affects the way the story ends.
Basically, I’ve got to think about career and the like. What am I supposed to do and how do I get to that point?
It’s resulted in a lot of journaling and a lot of thinking and a lot of wanting to escape into the stories I’ve been reading.
The truth is, I want to try everything. So that’s what I’m going to try and do. Learn as many things as I can until I know what that one, single thing is.
What is it that I’m going to master the art of?
