Reading, a disguised meal... How reading a lot helps a journalist...

For a journalist reading is as important as breakfast or breast milk. By feeding your mind with words, words that can make sense and formulate something that could be extraordinary like Charles Dickens novels, Mills and Boon, or any art of writing including newspapers. Indeed reading feeds the brain and soul of human nature.

As draining as it may sound, reading increases ones wits and that’s a fact. The 411 of any journalist job is to gain knowledge, gather information and somehow formulate sentences together to create an interesting article and by reading they can do that.

Interest..? This ought to be the first word to pop up in a journalist head when looking for something to read because it is the primary step when finding something that’ll attract you; like the title or the author. Look for a certain genre you are into whether it sport, non-fiction or entertainment. Obviously any person wouldn’t want to read anything jaded. We all know how tedious reading can be for the greater part of society. They want something that’ll hook and keep them reading on for some reason.

A broad imagination is what a good writer needs. A lack of knowledge is something that everybody tries to avoid just like reading and by doing that you are surrendering yourself to ignorance. Reading should devise thoughts of any kind and should create a picture in one’s head when following sentence after sentence. Understanding poetry helps improve the ability to formulate vivid imagery. So when one writes, after every sentence there should be a picture articulating.

Just by reading, it enhances writing skills and soon vanishes one dimension writing techniques. One can become skilled at how to flow sentences better, which makes any piece into an appealing story. Assuring that each word and sentence taken in will create a distended mind of valuable words.

Your vocabulary increases when reading, it installs an array of words and the way of using them when speaking. Questioning is a vital ingredient when being a journalist. Reading would create quicker thinking and improve general knowledge. Journalists will develop a familiarity with language and it will soon become a second nature when putting pen to paper. The common mistakes will become easily visible and editing would be a breeze.

This activity is a beneficial investment to a journalist character. A journalist is constantly growing in its environment, so becoming better is always the aim. When reading, park yourself in a quiet environment where you feel most at ease. Always make sure you have something to drink at hand.

Aaron Copland, a famous American composer, once said “I read, not to learn anything, but from the pure love of it.” In today’s day and age the love for reading is hard to install, but reading will never stop.