Why Stephen King says writers should read daily - a year of study for you.
The Fiction Writer's Challenge: I frankly don't know if anyone can actually do this one. It's a study course with 26 (or so) classic fiction books. If you can get through all of them in an average of 2 weeks, then you'll have covered the gamut of styles and plot twists, characters and story elements which all the truly great fiction writers have used for the last couple of centuries (at least) - all in a single year of reading.
The point was to set up a series of books and a simple program so that while authors read daily, they'd be able to surround themselves with quality editions of the top-selling fiction works of the ages.
And if sitting at the Masters' feet weren't enough, these are all available first as epubs, so you can carry them with you wherever you go - on smartphones, tablets, ereaders, or anything with a screen.
The trick is that it includes really long-winded books such as Les Miserables, War and Peace, and a few others that are otherwise meant to balance tipping bookshelves.
