One of the habits that might be the hardest to establish if you are aspiring to be a writer is to spend more time reading than writing.
Yes. I said it. Read more than you write.
I say that because the knee-jerk reaction of a new writer is to just write, write, write. But....
You must read literature to write literature. There is no better way to learn how to write than to read from those writers who have come before you. That especially goes for genre writers. You may love romance, mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, etc.
So, you want to write in that genre.... Then you better read everything in that genre. Study it. Learn from it.
What have you been reading lately? Is it helping your writing goals?
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