Book Blogger Hop
This prompt was submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews:
What is your method for writing reviews – do you write immediately after reading, wait a few days, or write as you are reading?
Write as I’m reading? Wow. There are people who do that? I hope some of the responses to this prompt are people talking about how they pull that off, I’d like to see that. Occasionally, I’ll leave myself a note along the lines of, “be sure to mention _____”—sometimes that will end up taking the form of a phrase or maybe a sentence or two—and those almost always never make the posted write-up. I might be more efficient if I could write about a book while reading (obviously not simultaneously…but that would be super-cool, I’d probably have to pop the same pills as Eddie Morra to pull that off).
Occasionally, I’m so excited and/or provoked enough that I start writing a post minutes after reading a book. And I have been known to close a book and start writing straight away because I have a Book Tour stop the next day, sure, let’s be honest (I’ve gotten much better about that lately…I think).
Typically, though, I like to give myself a day or two to let the thoughts marinate—what parts of the book do I want to talk about? What do I want to say about those parts? Are there things I want to emphasize? Things I want to downplay? Did I actually enjoy this or that aspect? How much energy/time do I want to expend on the book? Once I start writing, that goes out the window—I’ll end up spending more of both than I budgeted if I get on a roll/think of something new I wanted to talk about. Or, like with In a House of Lies last week, I realize I just don’t have anything interesting* to say.
* For the sake of discussion, we’re going to posit that I have anything interesting to say ever.
What about you?
Grab a book, any book.
