Tribute to Authors!

I have been thinking about this tribute for a long time and when I mean a long time I am talking about a few years with mulling it over in my head and wanting to make a blog about it but not sure with exactly what to say and getting the thoughts down in a blog post. Here it goes! 😊

I have always believed that authors are the most creative artists out there. To take words and run them all together to form sentences then create characters usually going deep into character creation and then coming up with background settings for the characters has always amazed me.  The time that authors take out of their normal busy lives to write stories and then throw them out there for readers has always been a fascination to me.  

Escaping into books and living fictional lives of the worlds that are created by authors is just pure creativity. I have been reading all my life since a very young age.  I have a bio post on this blog that says this: "Books are an addiction to me as I just love to lose myself in the different worlds that have been created by authors". 

I know that sometimes authors get bad raps and readers do not treat the authors right - I have seen this first hand myself with reviews from readers and what readers will go through to get their point across with opinions they feel that other readers should know.  For me - I just read the books and form my own opinions - I rarely read reviews from other readers before hand as I don't want any kind of influence of what others are saying about the book before going into it.  

Back in the day there were no reviews that were posted from readers - readers just read the books and if they enjoyed the stories enough they would keep the books on their bookshelves for maybe future rereads. 

I feel that if it were not for authors that the world would be a sad place as books are and always have been our escape. When things are meek and bleak in the real world we all know that we can just pick up a book and step into a world created by authors that takes us places unknown for a little while. 

I just want to say to never give up your dreams of being an author - there are readers out there that do care. We might be like "diamonds in the rough" to find but we are out there. 

Keep doing what you are doing to create these fictional worlds as there will always be someone to read them. Never give up hope and keep creating those stories. We all need an escape route and books are the escape as they take us places that we can go without having to leave our home and/or cozy chair. 

Thank you to all authors for all that you do and the worlds you create!

Happy Reading Everyone!