Stephen King wrote:“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
One of the first things I was told on how to improve my writing was to read, which is a very good piece of advice. Reading does improve your writing. You adopt things the author uses, get ideas, improve word choice and sentence structure, and you can even find your writing niche!
Your first thoughts are most likely to read books by all of the greats, from J.K. Rowling to Stephen King; you want to be just like them, so of course your first act is to read books from all these amazing writers. They're to be worshipped for having created all these captivating, fantastical worlds, and you can't put their books down. You tear their works apart, analyzing them, hoping to pick up on things that will make you like them — a successful author.
I will reiterate: reading good quality stories can make you a better writer, but so can reading awful pieces of literature that are so dull and poorly edited that you wonder how they ever got published.
Reading those books is actually very helpful to you as a writer. These books stand as a perfect example of what not to do when you write.
It's just as important to know what to do when you're writing as it is to know what not to do.
However, such kinds of book can be really hard to get through, which is why sporking websites exist! Appreciate these sites! Those people purposely read awful works and analyze them line by line in order to flat out tell you what not to do so you don't have to read the book! These sporking sites may include content such as has been outlined below:
Urban Dictionary wrote:"A line by line critical analysis of fanfiction, typically of the Utterly Horrible or occasionally So Bad It's Good variety. Derived from the term "Sporking one's eyes out", implying that the fic is so bad that most people would prefer to attack their own eyes with sporks rather than read it. Also the verb for performing such an analysis."
Most of the sporks are actually very comical to read, too!
The sites for sporks are as given below:
http://impishidea.com/
http://battlefieldspork.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.htmlhttp://missionspork.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html
http://armedwithsporks.livejournal.com/
So go on and read those books that make you want to "spork your eyes out" for being so bad, and be sure to take notes; your readers will love you all the more for it!
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