We writers have a tendency of losing ourselves completely in writing, we get so engrossed in writing that we ignore reading, we pass most of our time writing, editing, rewriting and that leaves us mentally exhausted, too exhausted to read works of others. That I personally think is a very bad step, I have always tried to avoid this, tried not to make it a habit I mean but I do fail quite a lot, there used to be weeks when all I did was wrote, painted and edited, did not even opened internet to browse blogs of my friends.
Why do I suggest reading the blogs of others?
The way I have been helped by this is beyond words. When I first started blogging in wordpress I was lucky that my path crossed with a girl named Jingle, she loved blogging and included me in her group, that girl tirelessly worked to bring us authors together and keep together. I don’t know which direction my writing would have gone had she not entered my blogging sphere but her entrance transformed it.
I discovered myself sitting smugly amongst a group of extremely talented artists, authors and avid readers. I utilized it to the best because I had all the time of world in my hand and was itching to forget my unemployed status. The transformation that happened to my writing and painting was immense!
1. My English improved in leaps and bounds, reading others attentively did that magic, I could see my own flaws and smooth them up, every month I read hundreds of blogs and they sort of transformed my own writing, my brain became a pot boiling with ideas, one person’s writing, painting, photograph always stimulates others, not only mimics but idea-hunters or just simple creators too. 2. We read each other’s works and improved our own works, tips and suggestions were left, but it worked by itself too, reading others thoroughly improves your own writing, you find out an interesting way of writing, a better way than yours you feel and you change your own style. You learn new words, new phrases and thousands of new things! 3. Reading the tips of editing and writing are some of the best habits, even if you don’t believe in methodical writing [I don’t, my writing is impulsive but these tips always open a path for improvement.] these tips help. 4. Reading other people’s blogs means if they are kind they will read your works too and leave priceless tips and suggestions. Or simply give you extra enthusiasm to write, after all we write for readers! Otherwise we would be writing journals not blog-posts or books.
There are many other ways I have been benefitted by reading voraciously, will leave few for next installment.
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We writers have a tendency of losing ourselves completely in writing, we get so engrossed in writing that we ignore reading, we pass most of our time writing, editing, rewriting and that leaves us mentally exhausted, too exhausted to read works of others. That I personally think is a very bad step, I have always tried to avoid this, tried not to make it a habit I mean but I do fail quite a lot, there used to be weeks when all I did was wrote, painted and edited, did not even opened internet to browse blogs of my friends.
Why do I suggest reading the blogs of others?
The way I have been helped by this is beyond words. When I first started blogging in wordpress I was lucky that my path crossed with a girl named Jingle, she loved blogging and included me in her group, that girl tirelessly worked to bring us authors together and keep together. I don’t know which direction my writing would have gone had she not entered my blogging sphere but her entrance transformed it.
I discovered myself sitting smugly amongst a group of extremely talented artists, authors and avid readers. I utilized it to the best because I had all the time of world in my hand and was itching to forget my unemployed status. The transformation that happened to my writing and painting was immense!
1. My English improved in leaps and bounds, reading others attentively did that magic, I could see my own flaws and smooth them up, every month I read hundreds of blogs and they sort of transformed my own writing, my brain became a pot boiling with ideas, one person’s writing, painting, photograph always stimulates others, not only mimics but idea-hunters or just simple creators too.
2. We read each other’s works and improved our own works, tips and suggestions were left, but it worked by itself too, reading others thoroughly improves your own writing, you find out an interesting way of writing, a better way than yours you feel and you change your own style. You learn new words, new phrases and thousands of new things!
3. Reading the tips of editing and writing are some of the best habits, even if you don’t believe in methodical writing [I don’t, my writing is impulsive but these tips always open a path for improvement.] these tips help.
4. Reading other people’s blogs means if they are kind they will read your works too and leave priceless tips and suggestions. Or simply give you extra enthusiasm to write, after all we write for readers! Otherwise we would be writing journals not blog-posts or books.
There are many other ways I have been benefitted by reading voraciously, will leave few for next installment.