Its Helps If You Put Effort Into It

So far my reading plan of trying to read about 10 pages a day seems to be working pretty good.  I figure I can get a couple of books read in a month or two, and not have to spend a great deal of time trying to research for various things.  I spend about 8-10 hours working everyday and that's not including the 4 hours or more of driving I do everyday to get to work either.  Sometimes you just need to relax when you get home.  10 pages isn't all that bad, but it's tough to read things written by so-called scholars, that really aren't all that smart, and try to sound more knowledgable than they really are.  I dusted off an old idea I had too for a comic book story, and I'm attempting to tune it up a bit, as I'm starting to see similar concepts being put into print now, and I don't want to copy anybody. Its such a cool idea but I'm not sure if its going to work yet.  Its basically the best idea you could ever see in comics, I need to do a few things, like catch up on back issues, and comics history, but its another dream project in the works

I managed to get another page done of my signature project.  I actually just sat there and cranked out a few primo paragraphs that set me up for the next phase of the book.  I've been trying to work it, so the reader's imagination will write part of my story for me.  I didn't write down certain details, because I want the reader to fill in the blanks.  I think...I hope, I left enough story there to actually tell the story, but I want different perspectives so I'm trying to balance all of that.  I'm trying to leave extremely subtle clues about things too, its sort of a puzzle, and sort of something the reader will see come together at the end if they can't figure it out.  There's usually 2 types of mystery stories, at least, from my point of view.  There's one where the story is laid out for you, and you can't figure it out, its up to th author to lay it out the solution for you, or there's the one that lays out clues and you try to figure it out before the last page.  I'm trying to find some middle ground.  You should be able to figure it out, but also not figure it out completely.  I like try to and figure things out myself, but I think I'm just trying to get a good story out, and not so much what kind of story that is.