Read Everything

I read quite a bit. I read everything from history to economics to science to mathematics. Reading expands our knowledge of the world and our base of what kind of stories and articles we write.

I'm amazed at how many genres can be intertwined. An example is novels which have been made into movies or plays. I'm working on stories that are poems. When I moved to poems a year ago, I read my short stories and concluded that some could be turned into poems, plays, or an essay.

I'm reading much about biographies of various authors. It has helped me to understand the mind and perhaps the heart of the author. When I feel that I have a basic idea of who the author is, I have felt that I'm walking beside the author or in the same room with them.

Read everything that you can. Challenge yourself by tackling a different genre from the one that you write.