Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

“How did you start writing?”, “You like to read—you’re an avid reader, you’ve read many books?”
Those are some of the questions I hear when I talk about myself and my writing. And so I tell them—‘started reading with my tenth birthday present, but I never was, what they call a true avid.’ I always read for personal enjoyment and often to learn something new. Something I never heard much about and was curious to find out more. Life, it seems, is mostly short on adventure and long on work and earning money for that proverbial survival, and reading something fun, interesting is often an escape into the dream lands of the worlds we might like better than our personal, our own. And so, ‘a big yes’ to some of those questions. On the other hand, many of us like to tinker with gadgets, or like to paint…
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