So I know it’s Book Review Tuesday, but this week it’s going to be a combination book review/top ten list day. As I have mentioned previously, I am now doing book reviews for several publishers, writers, and/or book review websites. As I have also mentioned previously (in nearly every Tuesday post, as a matter of fact – teehee), it seems like Book Review Tuesday comes around very fast every week. And while I enjoy writing book reviews and telling people about interesting books to look for (and not-so-interesting ones to avoid), I don’t actually want to be a professional book reviewer.

I want to be a professional writer. Of fiction. And writing books reviews is not writing fiction.

It takes a surprising amount of time to write good book reviews and/or good Book Review Tuesday posts, since I don’t just do a brief “here’s what it’s about, I liked it, you will too” kind of review. I like to have a theme for Book Review Tuesdays, with some context and some larger-meaning, drawing-connections kind of musings. Believe it or not, these types of posts don’t automatically just trickle out of my fingertips and out through the ether… They take time. So does writing fiction – vast, ginormous, buckets-full of time. And time is the one thing it seems like I am always jealously guarding and/or chasing these days.
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