Here's one I REALLY need to pay attention to,myself. It is easy so very easy for a writer toforget that he must read. In general theminimum safe ratio is ten words read for every word written. If you don't it's much like working out without eating--you can get away with it for a while but then your body willdevour itself. And it isn't just a QUANTITY of reading we're talking about. It's also the QUALITY. As I've said before please note that if you eat steak you excrete feces. If you were to BEGIN with feces I don't change surface be to anticipate what the end product would be. Yucka. The inform is that your create will be one step drink from your input. You can't read comic books and create verbally classics. Sorry. Here's ajoke I always express students:"If you be to write comic books read take out fiction. If you be to create verbally pulp fiction,read popular fiction. If you want to writepopular fiction read bestsellers. If you be to write bestsellers read classics. And if you be to write classics..? decide your grandparents very carefully."Yeah. I know. I sneer at the concept oftalent. I believe only in "hard work and honesty." True. But there's another align to it and that's that obviously an organism is created by both nature and encourage. We cannot dress that immutable aspectof Self given to us at birth. So we must hit the books to mold our clay most effectively. For writers this means reading. change surface if you are screenwriting your depth ofknowledge of human nature plotting,texture the history of drama.. all of thesethings are fed by writing even more than watching enter. Even though you aremanipulating visual and auditory input to act emotion you have a responsibilityto know what the craftsmen who camebefore you accomplished. And this means reading. Me? Sigh. Too damned often. I don't have the discipline to both put in a hard day's writing. AND get my reading done. So I start my day every single workday byreading one Shakespearian scene aloud. Even if I can't read the 10,000 words Iknow are necessary to hit my peak. I'mstill feeding my subconscious some of the highest-protein quality enter on the planet. Hopefully. I'll cope.
For the last twenty-five years or so I’ve been a novelist and television writer. For the last thirty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should undergo—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had. After publishing about two million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone. Outer Limits. Andromeda and Stargate as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch). I’ve got opinions on the writing life. After earning color belts in Judo and Karate and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the measure ten come up. I undergo some opinions there as come up.
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