The Best Way to Get Really Good at Writing

I think there is a lot of wisdom in that old chestnut–that the best way to get really good at writing is to write a lot! And read a lot. Saturation reading, basically.

And if one has neither time or energy to do either.

Then, trust God from whom all creativity flows!

Now that I have a lot less time, I just plunge into writing when free slots slow up. I remember however the days when I had lots of time, and slowly “got into the mood” by a slow process of arousal, by reading poetry, or reading prose until the rhythms built up inside me, started thudding in my veins, and I felt a burning longing to write something as beautiful as what I had just been writing