What Type of Reader are You?

“I’d be considered a dabbler if there was a name for the way I enjoy reading.”

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” -Rene Descartes

Today I got to spend a couple of hours at my favorite library. It was pretty much my workplace for years. It was nice to be able to think and explore all the different styles of writing. I looked at a nonfiction book about a ship called Mentor. I read a few pages of a collaboratively written book on Sci-Fi and Fantasy. And I skimmed some of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

If there was a name for the type of reader I am, I’d be called a dabbler. I like to read a little bit of everything. It’s more satisfying for me to read that way. That’s why the library is my happy place because it’s super easy for me to dabble in all types of books.

What type of reader are you?

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

Just Floating Along

“Do any of us really know what we’re doing?”

I’m floating along in this life wondering how to do this living thing. Not in a negative way. Just in a one day at a time kind of way. We all get to do this thing our own way and I’m not even sure our future plans will look the same as the way we’ve been taught by our elders. So even if we were taught, would it be accurate to the times? I appreciate our elders, especially the ones that work hard for us to have a healthy future, but I don’t even know if we’ll even buy our own cars in the near future because self-driving cars like Ubers could be all the rage.

Point is things are changing. I’m changing. We are changing on a global and individual scale. This isn’t some new thing. The world is constantly changing and innovating. It impacts me as a writer because of how we market our work, but it doesn’t impact the craft so much. I still have to write and edit.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

Let Writing Open Doors for You

“Life can surprise you with newer and better things that you didn’t know existed.”

Things don’t always come together. Some things fall apart and lead to nothing at all. But and I mean Buuuuut

there’s very often times that things flow into newer and better things that you didn’t know were possible when you started.

There was so much I didn’t know about writing before I started writing. I didn’t understand the versatility of creative writing. Once I learned the unlimited ways I could sling a story, I was pretty much hooked. When I first started writing, I couldn’t have imagined my first novel Writer’s Quest. I didn’t have access to the vision I needed to bring something so unique to life.

If I hadn’t stuck with writing and if I hadn’t explored all the different ways writing changed the world and how it changed me, I would have a very narrow idea of what it meant to write fiction in today’s world.

I’m no master of the craft. I still have things to learn but I know a lot more now than when I first started and that opened doors I didn’t know existed.

-Saschia ✨Jayne✨ Johnson

Is Writing Liberating You?

“Writing is hard but the liberations outweigh the struggles.”

Creating is liberating and it’s also one of the hardest endeavors. To bring your thoughts to the surface in a way that moves the observer. To wrap a lifetime of a million tiny moving parts into a work of art, unfathomable. We as creators have to learn to pick and choose which part’s worth sharing. The truth is all parts are worth sharing but time is precious and most people don’t have it in them to read every single detail. We must choose. We must nitpick and figure out which will be part of this work and that.

It is possible to write for the rest of our days and still leave this world with more to say. And still, I feel more liberated as a writer than all else. I’ve done jobs well enough. I’ve been loyal to a fault. I’ve shown up to a workplace knowing very well, that wasn’t my calling. And still writing is where I return.

Even with my dedication to writing for 10 years now, I still …read more

Save Yo Self

A little post on saving yourself

People will disappoint you. Life will be shitty a lot of the time. I think I’ve reached an age where funerals are just as normal as weddings. I talk about life in a positive way because I was a sad girl for a long time. There’s a lot of hard stuff that we navigate as we move through this life. I don’t think we should invalidate the tragedies that come with living.

Yes, those things you survived were fucking hard. And I don’t demand you be something more or less from them. There’s no heal-all balm for the nightmares life has handed any of us... read more