Reading helps us find out who we might be under cover so to speak!
We don’t need to wear borrowed clothes when we read, we can truly imagine those what if personalities and places that often times get submerged because of convention: for as we are governed, so we tend to govern ourselves.
Little wonder then, that writing depends on reading. How can anyone create characters and situations and make them compelling, if there is no store house of words to feed the writing? Reading makes writing more daring, more full of life and surprises.
Ray Bradbury offers this formula for creative writers:
“Find a character, like yourself, who will want something or not want something with all his heart. Give him running orders. Shoot him off. Then follow as fast as you can go .”
In my next blog I will introduce you to a Bradbury character who wants something with all his heart and who ran as fast as…..a gazelle!