Student Case

As per my last post, I explained my obsession with music. Today I thought I would delve into the world of the written. I have always enjoyed reading, but over the last few years I have moved away from it because of all the other hobbies, work, and study that I started doing. Now that I’m no longer studying, I have spare time in the evenings and on the weekends. This means that I can get back into some of the things that I was doing previously.

This has allowed me to get back into reading, which is quite good. I found that usually at night I start watching DVDs to fall asleep and now I find that I’m doing it all the time. I find it easier to get my brain to switch off if I am watching that if I am reading because watching doesn’t require you to think, you just view. When reading, you have to think about what is going on which means your brain continues to process and it never shuts down.

I enjoy reading due to three separate reasons. Firstly, authors are able to create characters that become people you know. Even though fictional, good writers can make them almost seem real and to the point where you can remember their past history within the story. If a certain situation arises in the story, you can almost picture how the character will react. You want to know how they are doing, what is going on in their lives and what is going to happen. If these aren’t happening for you then you aren’t connecting with the characters when reading the story.

The next thing I find interesting is the environment. Good authors are able to describe the scene so that the reader can picture what they are trying to paint. What I find interesting is how differently authors go about describing the scene. Some like to delicately describe every scene to the very finest detail, whereas others take a very minimalistic approach to scene construction. I like it when the author gives you a bit of detail, but not too much, just the important