Reading and writing are often taught as separate skills, but they are actually inseparable.
Top Tip: Reading fuels your writing, and writing fuels your reading.
When you read regularly, you absorb new vocabulary, sentence structures and ideas. This builds the raw material you need when sitting down to write.
When you write, you start to notice how stories flow, how word choices create your voice and how arguments are built.
By viewing reading and writing not as separate tasks, but as a continuous cycle of input and output, you unlock a deeper understanding of both. This helps you to improve both, making you a far more critical and active reader and author.
Something to think about.
More next week.