Read More, Write Better

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It is not apocryphal but intellectually genuine that any writer with a passion for writing can be as prolific as he or she wants with originality worth praising in every dimension of it. Creativity could be unpredictable in its capacity with such writer. He goes fishing for writing early in the morning violating every facet of how to fish for words that can make up a good story, for instance, and yet he comes back from fishing for his words with success beyond imagination.

Making reading an obsession is a must for any writer with the long-term intention to excel at his writings. Reading a book after a book, no matter what subject, is not only important but it is paramount for the growth of any writer who has the desire to make every single day of his life a learning opportunity to take one more step towards being a robust writer, a sense of a journey but not of a destination. If you stop growing as a writer, you risk undoing all your previous gains probably followed by a death of imagination to realize where you are on daily basis. If you don't measure your progress incessantly, life measures your lack of progress and throws you into one-way river of backwardness assassinating the core of your being a writer. Your mind as a writer does not only feed on food and oxygen, but it thrives on reading and writing words as lifetime companions with whom you share unbreakable loyalty, and pampering them as lovely babies of yours and watching them to grow in your subconscious mind is vital. Not letting your words to decay in the womb of creativity and constantly bringing them into existence is like going to the gym more often to build the muscles of your body, not randomly but on a timetable carefully designed by you to give birth to frui...

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... experienced this for many times. However, reading and benefiting from the uniqueness of as many writers as you can is essentially good for your writing potential.

Reading your past writings

If you read more, the more impact it has on your subconscious mind;this means the more you are exposed to writing and reading, the better. So, if you make writing a habit, your writing becomes like a beautiful baby growing in an excellent society radiating bright rays of knowledge. Have you ever noticed reading your past writings feels a little bit different from your current ones? Don't fret, for striving writers, this is good because your writing is growing and the ways you write is becoming better and better than it used to be. In a nutshell, if you keep writing, if you keep reading, then your everyday learning about writing will climb new horizons of sophistication.

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