A little writing prompt

I'm so sorry I don't have a longer post but I thought you might enjoy this writing prompt I found on Pinterest:

Of course, with the mention of Pinterest, there is the obligatory plug for my own writing board: Be awesome!  Be a book nut! which you can find here.

May your pens stay sharp!
*Evyn

Writing is only half the fun

We've all heard it before:
The more you read, the better writer you become.
Or something like that.
But does this apply to anything?  Can we read Berenstain Bears everyday and still become better authors? That may seem like a silly example but the point is that we only become better writers if we read good literature.  This does not limit our reading lists to classics such as Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.  It certainly doesn't mean pouring over The Scarlet Letter and War and Peace.  However, if we are to expand our writing horizons, we must be unafraid to sail the waters of literature.  We cannot read Twilight, The Hunger Games, and Percy Jackson a million times and grow any more adept with the pen.  Classics do provide us with the mental stretching we need and modern works give us the break between stretches.  I love a good romance novel or fanfiction as much as the next girl, I've just realized it isn't expanding my view and abilities as a writer.
I've recently tackled A Wrinkle in Time, a well-known classic that isn't all that hard to read.  Little Women and The Wind in the Willows are both examples of good literature that is simple in structure and topic.
Explore the library.  Expand your reading.  Enjoy the hard work of other authors.
Then apply it to your own work.
May your pens stay sharp!
*Evyn