Why is the world so obsessed with fiction?
Is it the thrill of adventure? The emotional connection? Or just the fact that life generally needs more dragons and fewer chores?
Here are 10 reasons we can’t stop turning those pages:
1. Brain Vacation: A getaway that doesn't require a suitcase or airport security.
2. Time Travel: Visiting the 1800s without the lack of indoor plumbing.
3. Paper People: Fictional friends never forget your birthday.
4. Heart Gym: Empathy training for your soul.
5. The 1 AM Lie: "Just one more chapter."
6. Stress Relief: Science says it lowers your heart rate (unless it’s a thriller).
7. Decor: Books make you look 40% more mysterious.
8. Validation: Realizing you aren't the only one with your quirks.
9. No Judgment: Books don't care if you're in mismatched PJs.
10. The Ending: Justice is served and loose ends are tied in a bow.
What's your #1 reason?
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I'm finding it hard to manage my Reading vs Life balance
Life seems to be really encroaching atm and I'm missing my 'curl up with a book' time
Hopefully things will settle soon.
Hope you're all ok bookworms x
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Indie authors don't get enough credit.
No publisher backing them. No marketing team. No agent.
Just them, a laptop, and a story they believe in so much they bet everything on it.
That takes more guts than most people will ever have. 💯
“Why, at your age, do you think you can become some real author?”
Not gonna lie guys, that one stung.
Yes, a real comment - in real life, not just online …. but to my face.
It’s not pretty sometimes when you chase a dream.
AI claiming Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is AI - Are we surprised? I mean the monster was created with random parts that used to belong to other people, and it was reanimated using a lot of electricity...
I hate GenAi.
I hate that it exists.
I hate that it makes everything seem fake in a world already rife with frauds and scammers.
It disconnects us further from each other and the human gift of art, for no discernible reward I can fathom.
It feeds all our worst qualities: laziness, historical and literary degeneracy, dishonesty and covetousness. It turns people into thieves that argue back in total absurdity: “I should have the right to steal and lie.”
It is poison delivered by keystroke.
The most successful authors aren't the ones who never fail; they are the ones who refuse to stay down. Every no or slow month is just a setup for your comeback.🏅
AI cannot replicate the struggle that goes into our craft, the painstaking deliberation of words, the thoughtful consideration of character. There is so much human soul in a novel and that’s a huge part of what makes it beautiful.
Stop writing to trends.
Stop writing what you think publishing wants.
Stop writing to please others.
And start writing what feels right and true to you.
When you tune out the noise and instead honor YOUR unique voice, your readers will:
👉 Relate to your characters
👉 Connect with your themes
👉 Admire what you bring to the table as an author
👉 Feel so much more connected to your story
Authenticity shows on the page.
I hate the way writers have to be influencers now. It’s the single worst thing that has happened to books. Good writers have to waste valuable time making content when they should be writing, bad writers get book deals because they have a lot of followers