If you want to write, you have to read. If you want to write well, you have to read a lot. There are two main reasons to read.
1 - To find out how the author surprises you and how they pulled it off
2 - To know what's been done so you don't do the same thing
There are stories that have been done to the death and you don't want to end up writing something that everybody's seen before. Use other people's ideas but mould them in to your own story.
Reading also helps build up your vocabulary and your spelling, grammar and punctuation will vastly improve as well.
It doesn't matter what genre you're writing, read all genres of book to get a better fell of how people write. Read a variety of books, old and new; once you know what's been done, you can write something that hasn't...
Keep writing.
1 - To find out how the author surprises you and how they pulled it off
2 - To know what's been done so you don't do the same thing
There are stories that have been done to the death and you don't want to end up writing something that everybody's seen before. Use other people's ideas but mould them in to your own story.
Reading also helps build up your vocabulary and your spelling, grammar and punctuation will vastly improve as well.
It doesn't matter what genre you're writing, read all genres of book to get a better fell of how people write. Read a variety of books, old and new; once you know what's been done, you can write something that hasn't...
Keep writing.
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