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Until you read well you can’t write well
The writer’s mind is like the room of a 14-year-old boy addicted to gaming. It is messy, scattered, and filled with trash
The less parental control there is the more horrible it gets. The writer’s mind needs a parent to be able to keep itself in order and organized
Our curiosity and ideas are all over the place, scattered around and asking for some organization.
This is why sometimes you sit down to write about a great idea you had but don’t know how to start with the writing. You are lost on how to express them.
For writers to be able to articulate their ideas they must first fall in love with reading. Reading brings calm to the storm.
Writers who read and read a lot have known how to navigate around their ideas. Reading other people’s stuff helps you know how to tell your own story.
There’s some magic in reading. You unconsciously come around different styles and approaches to writing.
To read you learn to write clearly. The scattered pieces of your brain and ideas come together whenever you are ready to put something down.
With reading you are no longer lost on words, lost on how to tell your story, lost on how to organize your paragraph, or lost on how to direct the bodies.
