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If it at all helps, I do think working on getting away from the feeling of what you “should” be reading WILL help you love reading again. What are the things that interest you? What makes you excited to learn? Holding on to that WILL lead to you finding that inspiration again imo.

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The fiction is quite boring nowadays. I rarely pick up any, it's a bit too slow & wordy :) + it doesn't make you use your imagination at all. Robert McKee's books r Good... But my advice (at least what I usually do) - I go to the bookstore & pick up two (3?) books - random choice: something I think would be interesting but not what I typically read. For example, I can pick up a book about archaeology plus a biography of some old English actress. Or historical (Monsters: history's most evil men & women) & a fiction easy-to-go book about Havana :) Ps. If you don't get any idea (for your own writing, for example; if the book doesn’t inspire or surprise you) after 10-15 minutes of reading - you should drop the book. It's a waste of time…;)

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Great response! I agree it's important to read things you don't typically read.

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Books that have helped me to live life better. Read Matthew McConaughey's GREENLIGHTS, Anita Moorjani's DYING TO BE ME, and reread Orwell's 1984. Then I choose one for pure entertainment and fun. xo Danni ❤️

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Ahahaha I love this!! Usually the self-help books or memoirs are a great inspiration, but what really gets me to sit down at my desk and actually write is reading fiction. Novels that make me feel things are the biggest driving force to get on with my own manuscript because I wanna make people who read my novel feel the way I feel when I’m reading. Also you can’t ever read enough novels, or at least I believe that.

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I agree! There's something you get from fiction that you can't get anywhere else! Important to always remember that!

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My life has been changed far more by the most random fiction books I pick up than any self-help manual or inspiring biography I’ve ever attempted to read. I also find my attention span attacked and diminished by the fast pace of our culture nowadays (I blame technology, as great as it can be for some things, and the way entertainment has devolved). The most recent story I was able to get completely lost in was “The Lies of Locke Lamora” by Scott Lynch.

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Attention spans constantly need to be worked on!

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