An English teacher once told my class that in order to be a good writer, you also have to be a good reader. You cannot be one without being the other. Not only does it allow you as a writer to see what works in a novel, etc, but reading opens your mind to now experiences, points of views and knowledge. If it wasn't for my family encouraging me to read when I was growing up I wouldn't have found my passion for stories and writing. Therefore eventually leading to my pursuit into creative writing in college.
I love to read, and one of my goals is to write stories that people love to read. Not only because of sales. But genuinely stories that people want to read and want to share with other people. My family used to shove books at me to read growing up, my dad told us bedtime stories that he would make up every night with words that we gave him like our own version of bedtime mad-libs.
I have been writing little stories since I was a little kid. I have folders, note-books, binders and drawers full of loose and bound papers full of unfinished dabbles. Looking through them now, the writing is so terrible, spelling, grammar, content, it hurts my head just reading through them. But I do not have the heart to throw any of them away. I have copies of every English paper I wrote in High-school, every snippit of short story with the idea that one day I could look through them and use something. One day something might spark something in my mind and who knows what might become of it?
Although movies are vision-ally stunning, how many times have we heard over and over again, when referencing the book compared to the movie, "The book was better."?
So, if you want to write, Read.
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