I haven't read quite a lot of books but I make it a practice to make myself invest my senses on different variety of books at lease once in a few months. Not just books I even have this tendency to read through book's blurbs and reviews and about the authors out of curiosity that needs to be satisfied when I come across some mysterious and interesting subject and plot lines.
For instance my last book was about Shri Ram in a mythological fiction based on Ramayana. It was a good story line that gave me an idea of how to create fiction out of legends that have been there for ages and has been retold again and again.
I try not to restrict myself to any particular genre of reading which I believe could help me develop ideas about multiple areas and subjects that in turn will come handy whenever I plan to start writing something of my own . YESss that's right I am one among those many aspiring writers who have rarely put any or very little effort towards writing something that people would want to read.
Even though I have tried writing once or twice thinking that I would hit something untold genius while writing but after a few pages it just gets to a dead end, you could say it as a writers block or in my case non writers dead end :-).
Once I came across something written that said the quality of your writing is influenced by what you read. So that's the reason I have been trying to read as much as I could but its not always that you manage to read something really good and inspiring.
I believe what could really help for a writing project is to have a sidekick in writing or someone you could discuss this with so that new ideas and angles in the story screenplay can be carved out. So its better when there's more than one person contributing to the writing.
Fiction writing is a great tool that we can use to weave a world of our own, you can layout your own set of rules , create your dream characters and human or demi god traits that each of us have imagined sometime as a kid or as a grown up child.
Doesn't matter what you write what language, what style, what kind of period of civilization you project , whether its an inspired one or based on someone's life , fiction, non fiction in the end what matters is a story that needs to be told and most of us like to read a good story.
Storytelling is a time tested classic which never goes out of fashion...
For instance my last book was about Shri Ram in a mythological fiction based on Ramayana. It was a good story line that gave me an idea of how to create fiction out of legends that have been there for ages and has been retold again and again.
I try not to restrict myself to any particular genre of reading which I believe could help me develop ideas about multiple areas and subjects that in turn will come handy whenever I plan to start writing something of my own . YESss that's right I am one among those many aspiring writers who have rarely put any or very little effort towards writing something that people would want to read.
Even though I have tried writing once or twice thinking that I would hit something untold genius while writing but after a few pages it just gets to a dead end, you could say it as a writers block or in my case non writers dead end :-).
Once I came across something written that said the quality of your writing is influenced by what you read. So that's the reason I have been trying to read as much as I could but its not always that you manage to read something really good and inspiring.
I believe what could really help for a writing project is to have a sidekick in writing or someone you could discuss this with so that new ideas and angles in the story screenplay can be carved out. So its better when there's more than one person contributing to the writing.
Fiction writing is a great tool that we can use to weave a world of our own, you can layout your own set of rules , create your dream characters and human or demi god traits that each of us have imagined sometime as a kid or as a grown up child.
Doesn't matter what you write what language, what style, what kind of period of civilization you project , whether its an inspired one or based on someone's life , fiction, non fiction in the end what matters is a story that needs to be told and most of us like to read a good story.
Storytelling is a time tested classic which never goes out of fashion...
