by Epoch Edge Press | Oct 18, 2026 | Writing Process
Short answer: the benefits of rereading books are real and surprisingly specific. You catch the setup you missed, you read the characters instead of the plot, and you finally see the craft that was invisible the first time. A first read is for finding out what...
by Epoch Edge Press | Oct 11, 2026 | Writing Process
Are audiobooks real reading? Yes. When the material is the same, listeners and print readers come away with remarkably similar understanding of a story — the plot, the people, the thing that doesn’t add up. What differs isn’t whether the book got...
by Epoch Edge Press | Oct 4, 2026 | Writing Process
Is reading multiple books at once a bad idea? No — not if you choose them deliberately. Reading multiple books at once goes wrong only when the books compete for the same attention, the same mood, and the same slot in your day. Pair them so they do different jobs, and...
by Epoch Edge Press | Sep 27, 2026 | Writing Process
Is it okay to not finish a book? Yes. Absolutely, unreservedly yes. You are not under contract with an author, and abandoning a novel is not a moral failure — it’s a reader exercising judgment. The only reading rule that matters is the one that keeps you reading...
by Epoch Edge Press | Sep 13, 2026 | Writing Process
How to get out of a reading slump: stop trying to finish the book that stalled you. A slump is almost never a discipline problem — it is a mismatch between the book in your hand and the attention you actually have this month. Swap the book, shrink the commitment, and...
by Epoch Edge Press | Sep 6, 2026 | Writing Process
The fastest way to find your next book is to stop browsing bestseller lists and start from the last book you loved. Name the specific thing you loved about it — the pace, the institution, the moral bind — and search for that, not for the genre label....
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