Ten helpful tips, directed at fiction writers but applicable to other areas are here. Mild spoiler alert: I was disappointed to discover that the tenth type of writers block was not “You are reading too much,” which seems to me to be a common problem for people who are nominally writers. At the risk of self-delusion, I might suggest that the quality of this blog has improved since I vastly cut down the amount of reading that I do.*
Mike Munger–my favorite source for writing advice–addresses this point rather succinctly: “Don’t read. Write.”
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* This probably doesn’t mean what it seems to, since I am still a voracious reader. To be more direct, I have modified the way in which I read. It will take more practice and thought before I am ready to address this in a post, though.
Interesting. That’s two people now who suggest writing to improve my writing, and one who suggests reading to improve my writing.
The one about not reading isn’t on this page (he has said it in person multiple times), but here are ten of Mike Munger’s best tips: http://chronicle.com/article/10-Tips-on-How-to-Write-Less/124268/