Does Reading Help Your Writing? (Tips on Writing Tuesday #4)

"If you want to be a good writer you have to read...LOTS!"





Have you ever heard anybody say that?




I got sick of it.  Every time I went to a website that talked about writing, or perused a writing magazine, or talked to an author, they all said the same thing: "Make sure you spend just as much time reading as you do writing."








Wuh?




Old me: "Well that's stupid.  I'm trying to become a writer!  I have family, work...LIFE.  If I don't take every extra second I ha...