This is a great post - something writers are guilty of: Not finding enough time to write. "they fret about writer’s block or about never having the time to write," writes Silas House. "Yet as they complain, they spend a whole lot of that precious time posting cartoons about writing on Facebook or putting up statuses about how if they only had more free time they just know they could get their novels written."

I just recently saw tweets from an author who was in the process of writing a book, who was writing reflections on Twitter on the process of writing and then complaining of not being able to concentrate on writing. So take a look at this blog. So much of it rings true in this 'digital era'.

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Slate magazine has listed overlooked fiction and nonfiction books of 2012. I haven't heard about many of these books, so it's a nice gesture on the part of Slate to decide to run the underrated list instead of the best list which what usually runs around this time every year. Some the books mentioned include 'Londoners' by Craig Taylor:

"For obvious reasons, Londoners was much more of an event when it was published in the United Kingdom in 2011, though you need not be interested in the English capital to appreciate Craig Taylor's journalistic achievement. Collecting dozens of first-person testimonies, from a fruit vendor to financiers to city officials to frustrated former residents who left for the country, Taylor paints a vast portrait of London that doubles as record of modern Western life itself. It made me wish a similar book existed for every city or town on Earth, though Taylor's curiosity and eye for diverse characters would be hard to replicate."

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