Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 6:49:42 GMT
I have written several times that I prefer reading on paper to reading on an ereader. I am a bibliomaniac , I like books as objects, I often look at them, I leaf through them three thousand times before reading them. In short, they give me sensations that a file can never give me. The story is always there, obviously, no one says otherwise. As 21st century writers, however, I think we need to learn to read both paper books and ebooks. We don't know if a publisher will publish us, it could also happen that we send manuscripts for twenty years and receive no response. At that point self-publishing becomes an obligatory choice, if we really want to publish. However, reading an ebook also has other advantages: it is often possible to find short stories in digital format , which in paper would cost too much to publish and would not even be convenient - who buys a 20-page book with just one story? These ebooks allow us to discover new authors, but also to read short essays to document ourselves .
If we have to read 20 essays for a novel, how much would paper documentation cost us? You save money with ebooks, right? Reads novels, short stories, essays, poems and blogs Everything, basically. I left out newspapers, perhaps because I don't read them, perhaps because no newspaper article has ever excited me or taught me something or improved my writing. I've always found the writing to be quite sloppy. Reading should be diversified , because it extends the writer's creative horizon. Always and only Special Data reading novels and perhaps of just one narrative genre is a big mistake, because it leads to a fossilization of tastes and a flattening of writing. Reading novels makes us understand how to construct a novel , it makes us know our favorite literary genre, it makes us discover the secrets of a story. Reading stories introduces us to the brevity of narrative . Reading essays increases our culture, makes our reading varied and therefore allows us to learn about other languages , other ways of writing.
Reading poems helps creative writing , because prose must also be seasoned with poetry (see Baudelaire: “Always be a poet, even in prose”). Reading blogs introduces us to other writers, helps us discover solutions, helps us write more directly and clearly. He writes, but not only fiction The speech is the same as reading. Writing is exercise , too, not just goals and objectives. An exercise is more functional when it varies. In the same way as reading, a writer must learn to write not only novels and short stories, but also other things. I asked myself whether a writer should write everything and from that discussion a general opinion was born: yes, but he certainly won't excel at everything. Geniuses are geniuses and are not born every day. As writers, however, we must taste and try every type of writing , because the more you write, the more you improve, but you also improve by writing everything. This continuous variation also helps us in another sense. Let's take a practical example. Reading different authors such as Conan Doyle, Poe and I don't remember who else, I often came across journalistic articles within the story. Or in poems. Or even in letters.
If we have to read 20 essays for a novel, how much would paper documentation cost us? You save money with ebooks, right? Reads novels, short stories, essays, poems and blogs Everything, basically. I left out newspapers, perhaps because I don't read them, perhaps because no newspaper article has ever excited me or taught me something or improved my writing. I've always found the writing to be quite sloppy. Reading should be diversified , because it extends the writer's creative horizon. Always and only Special Data reading novels and perhaps of just one narrative genre is a big mistake, because it leads to a fossilization of tastes and a flattening of writing. Reading novels makes us understand how to construct a novel , it makes us know our favorite literary genre, it makes us discover the secrets of a story. Reading stories introduces us to the brevity of narrative . Reading essays increases our culture, makes our reading varied and therefore allows us to learn about other languages , other ways of writing.
Reading poems helps creative writing , because prose must also be seasoned with poetry (see Baudelaire: “Always be a poet, even in prose”). Reading blogs introduces us to other writers, helps us discover solutions, helps us write more directly and clearly. He writes, but not only fiction The speech is the same as reading. Writing is exercise , too, not just goals and objectives. An exercise is more functional when it varies. In the same way as reading, a writer must learn to write not only novels and short stories, but also other things. I asked myself whether a writer should write everything and from that discussion a general opinion was born: yes, but he certainly won't excel at everything. Geniuses are geniuses and are not born every day. As writers, however, we must taste and try every type of writing , because the more you write, the more you improve, but you also improve by writing everything. This continuous variation also helps us in another sense. Let's take a practical example. Reading different authors such as Conan Doyle, Poe and I don't remember who else, I often came across journalistic articles within the story. Or in poems. Or even in letters.