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Why You Need to Read Fiction To Write Fiction

Why You Need to Read Fiction To Write Fiction

Training your brain to think in prose

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Lincoln Michel
Jan 26, 2022
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Piles of French Novels by Van Gogh (1887)

Recently, literary twitter was abuzz with one of those ridiculous debates that pops up every few months: Do you actually need to read books to be a write books? You might think there isn’t much to debate here. Don’t you need to study any profession or hobby to be good at it? It’s hard to imagine an aspiring chef …

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