Those are the two most important things for a writer to do.
While writing edges out reading for obvious reasons, the fact is, you still need to be reading, and you especially need to read that which you are writing. Writing Young Adult? You'd better be reading Young Adult, and keeping up with what's new and hot.
The same with romance, mystery, or literary fiction. It's all the same in that you should read what's out there, read what's good, read what's bad, and read what's current.
I was surprised and pleased today to stumble across a page on Amazon that I hadn't noticed before:
Fiction by new authors. First published novels.
Go. Explore. See what's out there and figure out how it impacts what you're writing. Don't panic if your passion takes you in a different direction because I truly believe passion can't be trumped for the most part. But let your turn in a different direction be deliberate, not because you didn't know.
Get after it!
While writing edges out reading for obvious reasons, the fact is, you still need to be reading, and you especially need to read that which you are writing. Writing Young Adult? You'd better be reading Young Adult, and keeping up with what's new and hot.
The same with romance, mystery, or literary fiction. It's all the same in that you should read what's out there, read what's good, read what's bad, and read what's current.
I was surprised and pleased today to stumble across a page on Amazon that I hadn't noticed before:
Fiction by new authors. First published novels.
Go. Explore. See what's out there and figure out how it impacts what you're writing. Don't panic if your passion takes you in a different direction because I truly believe passion can't be trumped for the most part. But let your turn in a different direction be deliberate, not because you didn't know.
Get after it!
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