Just like romance, sometimes it is helpful to get in the right mood for writing. Depending on the type of story or book I'm writing, I like to read something in a similar style or genre beforehand.
For instance, my current fiction blog serial is a crime thriller with lots of dialogue and some odd characters. I read some Elmore Leonard to get in the mood.
I'll be writing my follow up to The Last Chance Players in the next few months, so I'll be reading my personal favorite writer, Ross MacDonald. He wrote some of the best hard-boiled detective fiction and I hope to one day write as well as he did.
Anybody else ever do in any mood reading?
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