₦16: DO WRITERS READ ALL THE TIME?
Some people believe that writers are people who do nothing with their free time rather than reading.
They picture a scene in their head in which a writer is sitting on a fancy chair with a cup of coffee within arm's reach while flipping through the pages of a book for countless hours.
To most people, that's the standard operating procedure of every writer.
Yeah, “writers are readers,” says everyone dishing out writing advice. It's true anyway. But the problem with such advice is that it's making most people to think of writers as people who do nothing rather than reading all the time.
I know I write a lot. I also know that I love reading. In fact, I'm at this point that if I don't read or write for some days I feel as though something is wrong with me.
But then, I don't read all the time. I love doing other things too. To some extent, I love hanging out with friends. I love watching movies too. And a couple of other things.
Inasmuch as reading is part of every writer's identity, people need to understand that a writer's life is not completely about books.
People need to stop imagining that a writer reads all the time. It's a flawed perspective.
Most of the books I've read over the years are a result of forty to sixty minutes of reading within regular intervals. It's not as you probably think—I don't read a book for four hours straight up except I'm studying for an examination.
It doesn't work that way when I'm reading for leisure. Even if it does, not all the time because I have other aspects of my life that I must give attention to.
Remember, writers are readers who read a lot, not all the time.
They picture a scene in their head in which a writer is sitting on a fancy chair with a cup of coffee within arm's reach while flipping through the pages of a book for countless hours.
To most people, that's the standard operating procedure of every writer.
Yeah, “writers are readers,” says everyone dishing out writing advice. It's true anyway. But the problem with such advice is that it's making most people to think of writers as people who do nothing rather than reading all the time.
I know I write a lot. I also know that I love reading. In fact, I'm at this point that if I don't read or write for some days I feel as though something is wrong with me.
But then, I don't read all the time. I love doing other things too. To some extent, I love hanging out with friends. I love watching movies too. And a couple of other things.
Inasmuch as reading is part of every writer's identity, people need to understand that a writer's life is not completely about books.
People need to stop imagining that a writer reads all the time. It's a flawed perspective.
Most of the books I've read over the years are a result of forty to sixty minutes of reading within regular intervals. It's not as you probably think—I don't read a book for four hours straight up except I'm studying for an examination.
It doesn't work that way when I'm reading for leisure. Even if it does, not all the time because I have other aspects of my life that I must give attention to.
Remember, writers are readers who read a lot, not all the time.
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