“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.” [Michel de Montaigne] “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,” says Stephen King. So that's a good starting point—we want to read books, good stories, all kinds of timeless stories. Fiction is where we can learn from some of the masters of the craft, like King. To understand why we read so we can translate that to our writing, we want to be particularly observant of how the story makes us feel. When explaining why people buy books in On Writing King says: Book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel; book-buyers want a good story to take with them on the...
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