Author R.A. Gasparac

Something magical occurred to me. As writers, we don’t read in order to be entertained and/or learn. We consume the words of others and use those words to build our stories.

Think about it. You are what you eat. You write what you read.

This thought made me stop and truly think about how many books I had read before I finished my first novel. Ten. I read ten during that time. It is important to note they were all over 50k words. That’s OVER 500 THOUSAND words that went through my brain before I stopped my stories narrative.

After you realize that it is only a numbers game – the more you read, the more you write. The more quickly you are finished.