Every once in a while you run across something that you know instincitively is the truth. There is a ring to it. It doesn’t have to be re-heard or re-read or re-seen. It is the truth and you know it.
Today I was scrolling through my Facebook and ran across a post that read, “20 Top Rules for Writers” by Stephen King. Well Stephen King is a very successful writer, so I thought I’d look deeper into the post. The one of twenty that got me, the one that I only had to read once, the one that screamed TRUTH, was this.
#19 You become a writer simply by reading and writing.
“You learn best by reading a lot and by writing a lot; the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”
