Don’t just confine yourself to one genre. Read outside your chosen discipline. Be-Interdisciplinary. Read as much as you can from all different subjects.
It is the same with trash movies, trash TV. Wrestlemania. The Kardashians. I’m fascinated by it. So I don’t say read Tolstoy and nothing else. Read everything. See everything. The poet must not avert his eyes.
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– Werner Herzgog
We also, I say, ought to copy these bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, for such things are better preserved if they are kept separate; then, by applying the supervising care with which our nature has endowed us, – in other words, our natural gifts, – we should so blend those several flavours into one delicious compound that, even though it betrays its origin, yet it nevertheless is clearly a different thing from that whence it came._
—Seneca, Epistle LXXXIV
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Writers Need to Read
In the same way that visual artists need to be immersed in images, writers need to read and [[Read-Widely]].
Be Interdisciplinary
Dont constrain yourself to one field or practise. Seek out methods and templates from other disciplines. [[Read-Widely]] and then [[Combine-Different-Elements]]...
Find Literary Journals
Follow poets and journals on social media. Read the journals, read your favourite poets, find out where they are being...
Combine Different Elements
One of the key building blocks of creativity according to [[Everything-is-a-Remix]]. This involves taking inspiration from different places and combining...
set-reading-goals
Because [[Reading-is-Writing]] and [[Writers-Need-to-Read]] you should set goals for what you are reading. These should encourage you to [[Read-Widely]].
Read less read deeper
Instead of trying to [[Read-Widely]], instead focus on a few texts.[[Make-Marginalia]] in order to [[pay-attention-to-what-you-pay-attention-to]]. [[slow-down-to-pay-attention]].