Reading Helps Writing & Writing Helps Reading
Take these words, "reading helps writing", stick them into Google, and guess what you get?
Well, first, various places to visit that talk about reading helping people writer better.
Interesting thing is, though, there are just about as many places that talk about writing helping you read better.
I almost wanted to think that Google Search had attained self-consciousness and was trying to help me with this post :-)
I dropped that idea as well as the urge to start reading some of the offered results…
See, my Muse will sometimes invade my well-ordered conscious mind and order me to do various things; like not looking for links to recommend about the title of this post.
So, what did my Muse recommend?
"Just tell 'em what you think, Alex."
Hmmm…
Reading helps you write better, but only if you read well-written books.
Writing helps you read better, but only if your writing is somewhat decent.
Reading helps you write better because it can stretch your expectations about what writing really is.
Writing helps you read better because the struggle to put thoughts and feelings into words increases your appreciation that what you're reading had to be carefully constructed by the author.
Reading helps you write better because writing helps you read better.
Writing helps you read better because reading helps you write better.
Those last two sentences may seem rather nonsensical or you might think they have some mystical meaning hidden in them.
I hope you read them both a couple more times–do it out loud, too–and let me know what happened in your mind as the words swirled around………
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