Dear WriteByNighter,
A common sentiment these days is that time is running long and attention spans are running short.
The past few weeks on the blog we've talked about our struggles with creativity, and last week we offered a micro fiction contest (which doesn't close until Sunday night!!) in an effort to jump-start your writing.
But some of you -- OK, some of us -- are even having trouble reading.
In the past few weeks I've started and then discarded some excellent classics, including Death Comes for the Archbishop, Catch-22, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
And it's not for lack of enjoyment. Rather, I just can't seem to focus on a long book these days.
I just got one in the mail, Tariq Shah's Whiteout Conditions, a quick 115-page novella that I'll try reading in one sitting today.
And that idea made me wonder: What are some of your favorite one-sitting books? If you had to recommend a short read to someone struggling with attention span during -- hypothetically -- a pandemic that keeps us all closed up in our homes, what would it be?
And why do one-sitting books appeal to you?
Have you ever written a one-sitting book, and if so, did you set out to do it or did the project just happen to unfold that way?
