Blog #499: Could a Book or Two Be In The Works for Going the Distance?

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Going back to what I posted in Blog #495 on Christmas Day, another of the goals I have in mind is possibly writing a book or two about growing up as a neurodivergent. Now, you might be thinking on how I plan to undertake writing a book?

Well, there are several benefits that comes from writing a book: such as telling my story from a novelization perspective; getting the opportunity to do book signings and meet families that struggle with the prospect of neurodiversity, just to name a few.

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However, I feel that the biggest factor that comes to writing a book is to empathize the importance of my audience actually reading a book. One thing that I have noticed a lot is the lack of bookstores where people can go and actually read a book. Staring down a television screen does have it’s drawbacks whereas reading actually improves the mind. If I wrote a book, I can help people actually take information from the written word and use that knowledge in their future growth.

In recent years, my town’s school district has implemented districtwide summer reading because many students take the summer off and then when they go back to school in the fall, they don’t remember any of the stuff they learned the previous school year. Furthermore, summer reading is essential to anyone who is taking an Advanced Placement course in high school.

Being someone that worked for a now defunct bookstore chain for 3 years, I do see that reading brings people together and that a book holds more than any computer screen or television screen can offer.

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Plus, I’m also trying to set an example for my three nieces that you can learn from a book in terms of community interaction, the fact that knowledge can come from books and that reading a book can trump something like TikTok and social media. Reading something written by their Uncle Jeff would probably be the best thing they have ever read.

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Catch you all later!!