Reading: The Protein of writing (The pen is the barbell)

Everything has a foundation that it is set upon: From the societal functions to family structure, for literature? it is reading.

Those who write must nourish their power of words. To the author in training it builds experience in exposure to the different kinds of literature that exists, expands your knowledge on certain topics that you can reference later and sculpts imagination.

You must build a thirst and stamina for reading in order to interpret what you are looking at. Without it, one can easily be distracted from it and will find a plethora of ways to avoid it and although many claim that they "aren't heavy readers" but love to write, name ONE successful author who doesn't own any books! Being an author is not a one man or woman job, not as much as you may believe, we need other authors to keep us ink healthy.

YOU CAN NOT WRITE WHAT YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH. THAT'S WHY READING IS SO IMPORTANT. READING IS AN EXPERIENCE TO THE READER!

If you are a novelist, your library should have a great deal of them, if you write screen/stage plays or movies, I should see things pertaining to such or at least something to reference from (your own or someone elses)

A hindrance to your creative waterfall is the block that builds up from lack of exercise and yes I'm still speaking about books. You must build to become and avid reader to sprout as an active writer.

A book comes to mind: An Old Friend From Far Away by Natalie Goldberg. She is your literature fitness coach of memoir, but I found her words helpful on other writing areas as well. I strongly suggest this to anyone who's interested in becoming more invested in themselves as a writer.

"For the love of life and literature, stay prayerful, stay positive, and write on!"

not my pic but taken from wix