Just a short blog entry this week due to being rather unwell
(just a bad cold, but enough to make stringing long sentences together
difficult). The focus for this is going
to be something that I am sure most of you already know - the importance of
reading. (Topic suggested by the amazing
LJ Hamlin http://www.amazon.co.uk/L.J-Hamlin/e/B00B1F6318)
You probably already know this, but if you want to get
better at writing, one of the best things that you can do is reading a
lot. Read as much as you can, in
different genres, things that people say are classics, things in the genres you
want to read, and stories that people recommend. Work out what you like reading, what people
like reading, and go from there. The
more you read, the more you'll see how the writer's craft works.
Read magazines, read novels, read writing blogs and read
short stories, and if you can jot down the things that are most interesting in
a journal or notebook. A sentence or
image that is interesting, a description you love, a concept that you like,
things like that. So you can look back
and see what you find works, and you can get ideas. Not copying what you read, but seeing what
you enjoy and developing it. Plus, being
able to flick through everything you like will be quite fun, and can give you
some much needed inspiration.
So reading matters.
Talk to people about what they enjoy reading, and take a look at
it! If you have no ideas of what to look
at, people around you might have ideas.
Best of luck! Go and
read something now, and think about if there's anything there you can use.
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