"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window." -William Faulkner
If you write, or study writing, you know of this quote. I love the intent of these words, so simple an instruction from Faulkner, even the part about throwing writing out the window. The more I read, the more I know what belongs there. The more I read, the more I notice sentences, and those verbs. What a good writer does with verbs can amaze. Sometimes the most unusual combination of words will jump from the page, and make me smile. I'm not sure of the recent notion of right brain and left brain, and all the spirit and science of that argument, but I know this. There is a center of delight and creativity that awakes and deepens as I now read not just for amusement and entertainment, but as a writer. My wish for you - find that place, and explore it. Poise your fingers over the keyboard and write, write, write. Then read, read, read. You'll feel it.