Write every day to improve your skills from "summary" of On Writing by Stephen King
The idea is simple: if you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Simple as that. Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. When you find that you can't write, you may feel depressed or anxious. Take solace in the fact that some of the greatest writers in history have been unable to write. Remember that your job is to write well, and in order to do that, you must be willing to put in the time an...
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