No matter how good a book is, sensibility (and responsibility) says to stop reading at a reasonable time and go to bed. The story will still be there, unchanged, the next day. Books have a lasting quality. Every time you read the same story it will not have changed. The same characters will grow, travel, discover, achieve, die; the same cities will bustle; the same prophecies will be fulfilled. The story has already been told - it is up to the reader to discover it in all its wonder.
What does a writer enjoy more: reading or writing? For without one you cannot have the other; one can read and not put their heart into writing - but without reading, a writer would be severely crippled. It is in reading that one not only gains knowledge but increases their overall mental capacity and creative ability. It is in writing that one both bequeaths knowledge and builds a picture for the reader, whose experience depends on their own understanding and interpretation. What you form in your mind is your own. That is what differentiates a book from a movie.
The good story captivates its reader inasmuch as it weaves a tale to draw them through an enchanting dance of varying emotions: feeling for some characters - hating others; smiling in delight at beautiful surroundings - shivering in the depths of a dank dungeon; laughing at wry humour and comic situations - becoming saddened at necessary but painful events. The seasoned and determined writer will craft that good story with all their heart, soul and mind - never backing off, never ceasing the ebb and flow that must pulse continually through the plot, never revealing too much, confusing the reader nor disappointing them in their wide-eyed expectation of happening.
The reader must be satisfied.
-Timotheos
Dreaming of Possibilities
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