I like reading.
I just got home after a 6 hour train journey. Whilst obviously more tedious than coming by plane as I did last time, it was still better than the 8 hours on the bus that I did before. The train is much more comfortable than the bus. And I read the whole way.
Okay, not quite the whole way. I was trying to watch videos on my phone at the same time too, but the internet didn’t work well enough to do that so I got annoyed and gave up with it.
But for the most part, I read. And the time passed nice and quickly.
I’m not sure how well it will go for the return journey… For one thing I’ve almost finished the story, and for another I’m not sure if I’ll have access to a phone charger and I don’t want to kill my phone trying to read…
Love,
Lady Joyful
Train journeys are meant to be passed by looking out of the window looking at the world go by and imagining what the people and places mean to the locals and to you the detached observer. As a writer this should be more important to you than being in a detached elsewhere via your mobile device.
Six hours of looking out the window wouldn’t be fun… And for a chunk of it there wasn’t enough light to have seen anything anyway.
And also… would you have the same complaint if it had been a physical book I was reading? 🙂
Yes. (If it was a complaint rather than an observation.)
I can look out of a train window all day. If it is getting dark you should doze off.
As a writer it is also important to read a lot 🙂
Watching fields gets boring. And if I’d dozed I would have missed my stop! Plus I can’t sleep sitting up…
Set the alarm on your device.
If you cannot sleep in a chair you are not tired enough. Use more energy.
No matter how tired I am, trying to sleep in a chair feels like torture!
Every field is different.