To Develop Your Writer's Intuition, You Must First Read Like a Maniac

cross-posted to Storytellers Unplugged


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Reading came first. It always does.

Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.

I once read somewhere that kids who like to read fall into two groups. The first naturally picks up reading from their environment: they see their parents reading, they find books in the house, they go to libraries and bookstores and learn young and easily the books that they enjoy. These kinds of readers are bright, well-rounded kids. They are socially adept. They h...