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Let´s start writing: step one

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How to start writing? It's the obvious. That's what you're doing right now: reading. Read what you want, what you can, what you can because reading is part of the foundation of writing. Reading lays the foundation for the thinking that develops as the lines are deciphered. Calm down about the genre you like to consume the most. Whatever your preferences, your reading builds a road that naturally leads to writing. Just want it. There are two sides of the coin: reading and writing. And vice versa. From the first step, I propose an activity: buy a notebook and write down the phrases and sentences that most impressed you. Have this notebook with you whenever you are reading. Reproducing excerpts that you identified with is a way of appropriating the work and this will solidify your ideas because reading is not something passive. Absolutely not: it is an active attitude that opens up the most diverse horizons in the mind.  Just look at this shiny little piece of Nietzsche's ...