You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
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Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.
I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
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