I’ve added reading to my daily routine. Several articles on Medium per day, and I intend to re-add reading fiction to the mix too. Every day.

Not only has this helped me think critically about my own ideas, and indeed discover things I just didn’t even think about, its rewarding in that it has been just plain interesting. Life is a constant search for knowledge and reading is a highly efficient way to borrow other people’s!

The most crucial thing that reading every day has resulted in, however, is the ability for me to write every day. Reading and writing are a feedback loop. If you want to write, and write well, first you must read.

But reading a lot won’t instantly make you a great writer. Becoming great at anything, regardless of how much natural talent you were gifted with, requires practice. It requires hours and hours of beating on your craft, honing. Your skills.

Not just writing, anything of importance. Make time for the things that matter, every single day. Soon they’ll become as natural - and as easy — as breathing.

Signing off.

Thought for the day: George R.R. Martin — ‘A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.’