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Have you ever set down a book for good because you found something in it you don’t like? If you want to write, I suggest that bad habit end now. Why, you ask? Because everything you read—and I mean everything–has positive value for you as a writer. Stephen King, and any author worth his or her salt, is a huge advocate of writers reading massive amounts. Again you ask, why? How can everything be useful? There are a number of reasons and I’ll cover as many as I can. Reading bad literature teaches you about yourself and shows you what to avoid—or at least how not to do something—in your own work. If you run

Have you ever set down a book for good because you found something in it you don’t like? If you want to write, I suggest that bad habit end now. Why, you ask? Because everything you read—and I mean everything–has positive value for you as a writer. Stephen King, and any author worth his or her salt, is a huge advocate of writers reading massive amounts. Again you ask, why? How can everything be useful? There are a number of reasons and I’ll cover as many as I can. Reading bad literature teaches you about yourself and shows you what to avoid—or at least how not to do something—in your own work. If you run

* Miss Wallace could have compressed the entire file into one four-second video: Elliot and Jack standing in the clearing, watching Peace's empty body fill with rain. Instead, she created a new memory bank and named it "Mortality." Her knowledge of the subject was limited to the definitions they'd fed her at Parent Programming: a condition of impermanence, potential for termination, the impossibility of repair.  Descriptions of life, not the end of it.  They told her she wasn't manufactured to understand death.  What, then, was a twelve-year-old boy who had been emptied of his internal organs? It was nothing