What if you could only read one sentence a day?

That’s the terrifying prospect I faced when I was bed bound for six years with ME/CFS. My experience was extreme but there are a million reasons why you might not get to read as much as you want.

Maybe…

• You get into bed to read and can only keep your eyes open for a couple of minutes. 
• Perhaps you’ve got kids running round and you never have the chance to read more than a few sentences. 
• Or you’re Just. Too. Busy. 

Either way making time to read a whole book can be a challenge, if not an impossibility.

I hated being stuck in bed, but not being able to read? That was truly awful. 

My only consolation was that I could still buy books, lots of books, that I kept under my bed for when I could read again.

One day a book arrived that was so beautiful, the cover so gorgeous that I just had to take a peak inside. It was Sabriel by Garth Nix and I highly recommend it to all fantasy fans.

I started off reading just one sentence. That was it. I had to stop because my brain physically hurt and I felt really ill. But it was worth it.

The next day I read another sentence and over the course of the next year I gradually built up to reading more and more, until eventually I finished it and I loved it. Best of all I was reading again!

It was incredibly hard having to limit how much I read but I realised that you don't need to read a book in long stretches, you can enjoy a story in bite-sized chunks, short sections that transport you into another world.

It's perfect if you are short on time or, as in my case, energy. You don't have to miss out on reading and stories.

That's partly what inspired my serial story Seeing is Believing I realised that if it was possible to read a story in sections it would also be possible to write one, that I could send out to people for free, via email every Friday.

I thought it would be a cool challenge to write and something I'd love as a reader. Even cooler is because of social media I'm making Seeing is Believing into a Crowd Sourced Story which means you, the reader, get an input into what happens.

As I'm a fantasy and sci-fi girl at heart, my story had to have a twist to it. Jess is losing her sight and with it her identity. After a series of unsettling incidents she starts to question everything. How can she be who she always was, when she can no longer trust what's right in front of her?

Seeing is Believing is as much of an adventure for me to write as it is for you to read. I love discovering what happens along with you. It's a fun and wild ride. If you want to get in on the story then sign up for FREE below.

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