At my first reading of this, I agreed wholeheartedly. As a bookworm, I understand the ability of books to carry you off on adventures. A good book has the power to transport you to the world outside while you are still inside. It allows you to experience other worlds and places without ever leaving your home.
But a great book does more. A great book takes you on those adventures and leaves you wanting to go out and experience it for yourself.
See great books don't just transport you, they create a desire. They describe and explain in such a way that makes you crave the experience.
When I think back to myself as a kid, the stories I loved most almost always made me want to do something. Because of a book, I found myself wishing to go to the Arctic and see the Northern Lights. Because of a book, learning to sail has been on my bucket list for years. Because of a book, I wanted to travel, I yearned to discover.
Books have given me dreams; dreams that are so outside of myself and occasionally against myself that sometimes I'm amazed I want them. Great writing will do that to you. It makes you want to go experience the world.
So in my writing, I don't want to be satisfied with creating an adventure for the reader to be apart of. I want to write tales that will inspire people to go have adventures of their own. Reading should make you want to leap into action. You should come away from a book with new ideas and renewed spirit.
A great book makes you feel like anything is possible, and makes you want to try.
A great book makes you put down the books,
and live.
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